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In this paper the authors are attempting to define the concepts of poverty, equity, and human rights in relation to health (Braverman 2003). This paper also proposes five general areas of focus that can be used to address poverty, equity, and human rights through health sectors. The paper also assert that poverty, equity, and human rights are connected in concept and operation leading the reader to become more aware of areas to strengthen the work need to improve poverty, equity, and human rights when related to health outcomes.

Baum, Fran and Duvnjak, Angella. The politics of poverty in Australia [online]. Social Alternatives, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2013: 12-18. Availability: ISSN: 0155-0306. [cited 04 Aug 16].

Relative poverty has been defined as the level of deprivation, where individuals are unable to play the roles, participate in the relationships, and follow the custom behavior that is expected of them by virtue of their being in society. Inequality tends to influence people’s perceptions of poverty. “Policymakers and analysts use poverty rate to measure programmatic successes and failures and to create, defend, and dispute new policy initiatives” (Oslen pg. 4) The level that any poverty line is set to may be considered random and debatable. Poverty is the inability of having choices and opportunities, a transgression of human dignity. It is a lack of capacity to participate effectively in society.

“A right is not what someone gives you, it’s what no one can take from you,” said by Ramsey Clark (NY Times 1977), lawyer and human rights activist. Human rights are important in the relationship between the people, and the government that has power over them. These sets of rights draw a line in the sand for what the people in power can and cannot do to their citizens. Globally, there are millions of people whose rights are violated daily and nothing is done to protect these individuals. While governments have always been obsessed with external threats and conflicts, they have continuously overlooked the basic human rights of their people, which has resulted in the enslavement, discrimination and racism because of a lack of involvement and the bystander effect violations continue with no change in sight.

Poverty is an issue that is spread all over the world. I am running for senate and my goal is that everyone will have a home in our country.

Many describe poverty as an economic deprivation, or lack of income. However, this alone does not incorporate the different social, cultural and political aspects of this unfortunate reality. Poverty is not only a deprivation of economic or material resources but a violation of human dignity. The general scarcity, lack, or the state of one without a specific amount of material possessions or money. It is a versatile concept that may be defined as either absolute or relative. Time and again, poverty is a call to action, for the poor and the wealthy alike, it is a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their communities.

Poverty has always been the major problem of every country. There are people who have to think more than twice before buying anything. Poverty can cause various effects on an individual such as health problem, education problem and involvement in crime.

Poverty is a massive issue today, it surrounds all of life’s experiences, and it impacts on the future for people everywhere, and on health everywhere in society. Poverty is not just related to unemployment or

How environmental factors and poverty influenced my development. Poverty played a very prominent role throughout the course of my life. I encountered various issues which influenced my psychological development and hindered my ability to properly process the consequences of my behavior. Also, the lack of resources limited my access to a proper education and a safe living environment. Despite the fact I am now a well-adjusted individual there is no doubt my internal and external behaviors along with the quality of life were greatly impacted but the level of inequality I experienced throughout the younger years of my life.

Braveman and Gruskin (2003) begin by recognizing links between poverty and health; placing emphasis on the association between lack of economic resources and how they have potential to lead to ill health, or reciprocally, lead to poverty (p. 539). The Equity framework in relation to health centers on the socially disadvantaged. Focusing on the notion that particular health outcomes are connected to unequal opportunities, among less privileged individuals, within particular social categories (i.e., race, ethnicity, religion, gender) (Braveman& Gruskin, 2003, p. 540). Human rights, the final comparative to health, when violated, limits

‘Poverty’ could be considered a difficult concept to define due to its subjective and personal nature; what poverty means to one person doesn’t necessarily mean the same to another. Different aspects of life including: income, living conditions, access to education, access to nutritional food and clean water are all factors that contribute towards an understanding of what ‘poverty’ actually is. Therefore, deciding whether poverty exists in the United Kingdom is challenging as it is crucial to establish a universal definition of poverty and consequently, who lives in these conditions in order to measure this and produce statistics that reflect the results. Thus, there has been a number of debates regarding what constitutes as poverty and

In todays “developing” world it is sad to research poverty and see the eye-opening facts and statistics showing how impoverished many individuals and families are. Poverty is a serious matter; today more than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening. Child poverty is a big issue and needs even more focus than the poverty issue itself. Children are our future, and in the richest nation in the world, one in three kids lives in poverty. Let that sink in. If children are our future, that statistic contradicts any future improvements that could be made. My personal opinion is that any child who is raised in a financially challenged or impoverished home has less of a chance to make it out. Therefore, if one in three children are living in poverty the majority of those children will also grow to create a family at risk of poverty. Again like I stated, this is only my personal opinion before I’ve gone into research.

Amartya Sen presented a path breaking argument for the measurement of poverty. Capability school of thought presented a multi dimensional approach for the measurement of poverty. According to his capability theory, it is not having the capability that causes and brings about poverty. For instance, he suggests that urban poor are deprived because they do not have the capacity to produce adequate incomes to consumer adequate food and nutrition and to make informed decisions and act in such a way that would ameliorate their living standards. Therefore, following Sen’s capability theory, the important elements in describing the urban poverty entail, one’s health, gender, ethnic status, nutritional and educational (Sen, 1992).

Every city has poverty. Travel around the world, I bet it wouldn’t be difficult to find a city that doesn 't have an impoverished community. Poverty is a global issue, but most importantly it’s a local issue to me in the city that I live in. Among the 10 largest cities in America, Chicago has the third highest poverty rate with 40-60% of our residents living under the poverty level. People who live in poverty are given less opportunities, resources and tools than people who live in the middle or upper class. Poverty is not a pleasant subject, however, poverty is real. In the daily lives of the poor, poverty becomes a network of disadvantages. The end result is that there is a lack of access to education, employment, health care, affordable housing, proper sanitation and good nutrition among many generations of the poor (End Poverty). Of the issues associated with poverty, the lack of access to an education stands out to me the most. In Chicago, education is greatly valued and is vital for all development and growth achievements in people. Education is the process in which people gain knowledge, help form and shape attitudes and opinions, and allow people to gain a set of skills that they can further use in areas outside of a school environment. However, education systems in Chicago are taking a huge deficit due to the effects of poverty. The effects of poverty are already big factors toward the concern about Chicago, and why it is portrayed as negatively as it is, but those

Over last two decades a problem on human rights and poverty has been excessively debated. Originally, it was provoked by Thomas Pogge, who claimed that people living in well-being violate human rights of people living in poverty by not helping them and being beneficiaries of global institutional order. Consequently, affluent countries are responsible for reducing misery in the world, because current global economic order disproportionately serves for humankind (Pogge 2005, severe poverty). To be precise, wealthy countries are continuing to grow rich, while poor countries are continuing to peter out.