NEOMED Library: Poverty Simulation Activity Guide: Supplemental Resources

Understanding Poverty as a Social Determinant of Health (from introduction video and class slides)

Healthy People 2020
A Federal Government Web site managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Social Determinants of Health
Healthy People 2020
Poverty and Social Determinants
World Health Organization (WHO)
Poverty Thresholds - United States Census Bureau, Quick Facts
– the official federal statistics about the number of Americans in poverty each year.
Poverty Thresholds - United States Census Bureau, Table, Population estimates, July 1, 2018, (V2018)
National Poverty Rates - United States Census Bureau, Map
– a statistic about the percentage population living in poverty
2019 Poverty Guidelines
– The poverty guidelines are a simplified version of the federal poverty thresholds, used in determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs. They are issued each year in the Federal Register by the Department of Health.
Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2017
United States Census Bureau
Financial Condition and Health Care Burdens of People in Deep Poverty 07/16/2015
Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
United For ALICE
A grassroots movement representing United Ways, corporations, nonprofits, and foundations in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Hawai‘i, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
United For ALICE, Research Center, National Comparison
United For ALICE, Research Center, Ohio State Level Details
United For ALICE, The Consequences of Insufficient Household Income report
Family Budget Calculator
Economic Policy Institute
The Community Action POVERTY SIMULATION ©
Medicine in the 'Middle of Nowhere': An on-the-ground look at rural healthcare
By Kristy Thomas, MS, PA-C | March 19, 2018
UnderstandinNeighborhood Effects of Concentrated Poverty
HUD User, Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R)
45 Important Welfare Statistics for 2019
Lexington Law | December 31, 18

Other Supplemental Resources

The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2017
United States Census Bureau
Income and Poverty in the United States: 2017
United States Census Bureau

Glossary of Terms and Public Benefits
The Real Cost of Living
Copyright 1987, 2003, 2007, 2011 Missouri Community Action Network (Missouri CAN) in 2016 REV. 03/16

12 myths about homelessness in America. Posted by Robert Polner-NYU, September 26th, 2019
The author summarizes the work of Deborah K. Padgett, professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University and co-principal author of recent study in Evaluation and Program Planning, and debunks twelve common myths about homelessness in America.
A physician uses where he comes from for constant motivation. Posted by Nasir Malim, MD, MPH, September 10, 2019
Blog post on MEDPAGE TODAY’s KevinMD.com, the author, an internal medicine resident, reflects on growing up in a low-income household and arising conflicting emotions as they approach middle class (or higher) household wealth.
Crazy is how you feel when working within a system you feel you cannot change. Nina Mirabadi | Policy | October 31, 2019
Blog post on MEDPAGE TODAY’s KevinMD.com, the author, a medical student, challenges readers to examine their implicit biases and choice of language by remembering that the colleague sitting next to each of us could be a person who has faced homelessness.

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Understanding Poverty as a Social Determinant of Health (from introduction video and class slides)

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