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Poverty in the UK Poverty in Italy Key figures Vulnerable groups Share of children living in poverty Share of non-EU nationals at risk of poverty Households with all active members unemployed Wage gap of workers with and without disabilities Severe poverty Share of population living in...
One in three children in the UK lives in relative poverty. There are clear and consistent links between child poverty and paediatric morbidity and mortality. In this review, we discuss drivers for family poverty in the UK, and how this leads to poor child health outcomes. We present a framew...
Published today, the new review, "Fuel Poverty, Cold Homes and Health Inequalities in the UK," predicts significant health, social and education detriment for a new generation of children if, as forecast, 55% of the U.K.'s households (around 15 million people), fall into fuel poverty by ...
For that reason, the UK health authorities commonly use a composite measure known as the Townsend Deprivation Index to assess material deprivation within a population18. In this study, we applied MR to examine the causal effects of poverty on nine mental illnesses. First, to maximize the power ...
Energy poverty is a type of poverty in which a household cannot afford to buy energy or where there is a lack of access to an appropriate level of energy services required to ensure basic, everyday needs essential for correct functioning, i.e., heating/cooling, cooking, lighting, etc. [1...
As for Canada, it is stated on the website of the Canadian group “Disability without Poverty” [138] that, “in 2021, people with disabilities were twice as likely to live in poverty in Canada than those without” [138] (p. 6); and in the 2023 report card for Canada, their webpag...
Among the OECD countries, Costa Rica had the highest share of children living in poverty, reaching 28.5 percent in 2022.
5 In addition to the large poverty population, China has long been plagued by uneven development and income inequality, exacerbating the severity of social inequality. Reducing poverty is thus of high importance to China for achieving its sustainable development goal. To this end, China has ...
The research also shows that there are higher levels of energy poverty inrural areasin Canada, where the population tends to be older, living in larger households, and facing greater income insecurity. "For example, we found that in a small town in Nova Scotia, where around 40% of the pop...