Poverty, Allostasis, and Chronic Health Conditions: Health Disparities Across the Lifespan
Poverty is an important social determinant of health disparities across the lifespan. Poverty also influences other life challenges such as pecuniary instability, food insecurity, housing instability, educational inequality, and limited career mobility. According to the World Bank, more than 700 mil...
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| author | Val Livingston Breshell Jackson-Nevels Erica Brown-Meredith Alexis Campbell Brandon D. Mitchell Candace Riddley Alicia O. Tetteh Velur Vedvikash Reddy Aquila Williams |
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| description | Poverty is an important social determinant of health disparities across the lifespan. Poverty also influences other life challenges such as pecuniary instability, food insecurity, housing instability, educational inequality, and limited career mobility. According to the World Bank, more than 700 million people worldwide live in global poverty, surviving on less than USD 2.15 a day. Poverty may also be viewed as a state of deprivation that limits access to resources that address basic needs (i.e., food, water, shelter, clothing, health), limiting an individual’s opportunity to participate optimally in society. A large body of research has identified a positive relationship between poverty and chronic health concerns such as heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, kidney problems, liver problems, cancer, and hypertension. This entry examines health disparities associated with economic status, discrimination, racism, stress, age, race/ethnicity, gender, gender identity, and nationality from a social justice perspective. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-67b3f3799a6b4a38b6497cddd2bdc1cf2025-08-20T02:42:40ZengMDPI AGEncyclopedia2673-83922025-01-01511610.3390/encyclopedia5010016Poverty, Allostasis, and Chronic Health Conditions: Health Disparities Across the LifespanVal Livingston0Breshell Jackson-Nevels1Erica Brown-Meredith2Alexis Campbell3Brandon D. Mitchell4Candace Riddley5Alicia O. Tetteh6Velur Vedvikash Reddy7Aquila Williams8The Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USAThe Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USAThe Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USAThe Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USAThe Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USASchool of Social Work, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, USAThe Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USAThe Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USAThe Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USAPoverty is an important social determinant of health disparities across the lifespan. Poverty also influences other life challenges such as pecuniary instability, food insecurity, housing instability, educational inequality, and limited career mobility. According to the World Bank, more than 700 million people worldwide live in global poverty, surviving on less than USD 2.15 a day. Poverty may also be viewed as a state of deprivation that limits access to resources that address basic needs (i.e., food, water, shelter, clothing, health), limiting an individual’s opportunity to participate optimally in society. A large body of research has identified a positive relationship between poverty and chronic health concerns such as heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, kidney problems, liver problems, cancer, and hypertension. This entry examines health disparities associated with economic status, discrimination, racism, stress, age, race/ethnicity, gender, gender identity, and nationality from a social justice perspective.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8392/5/1/16health disparitiesallostasischronic stresschronic health concernspovertydiscrimination |
| spellingShingle | Val Livingston Breshell Jackson-Nevels Erica Brown-Meredith Alexis Campbell Brandon D. Mitchell Candace Riddley Alicia O. Tetteh Velur Vedvikash Reddy Aquila Williams Poverty, Allostasis, and Chronic Health Conditions: Health Disparities Across the Lifespan Encyclopedia health disparities allostasis chronic stress chronic health concerns poverty discrimination |
| title | Poverty, Allostasis, and Chronic Health Conditions: Health Disparities Across the Lifespan |
| title_full | Poverty, Allostasis, and Chronic Health Conditions: Health Disparities Across the Lifespan |
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| title_short | Poverty, Allostasis, and Chronic Health Conditions: Health Disparities Across the Lifespan |
| title_sort | poverty allostasis and chronic health conditions health disparities across the lifespan |
| topic | health disparities allostasis chronic stress chronic health concerns poverty discrimination |
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