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Continuing professional education
Poverty
  1. M Mowafi,
  2. M Khawaja
  1. Center for Research on Population and Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr M Khawaja
 Center for Research on Population and Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon; mk36aub.edu.lb

Abstract

This glossary addresses the complex nature of poverty and raises some conceptual and measurement issues related to poverty in the public health literature, with a focus on poor countries.

  • poverty
  • community health
  • social exclusion

https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2004.022822

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