POVERTY

Poverty



Abstract

Despite the fact that many people in Britain live lives that are characterized by poverty and deprivation, many people still believe poverty to be a problem that only exists in poorer or less economically developed nations of the world. Politically, poverty is not usually influential media news and is overlooked in favor of more fashionable campaigns and the activities of the rich and privileged. One of the causes of poverty is discrimination; certain people are rejected by society often for reasons beyond their control. They do not have access to the same life chances as many in the population and become vulnerable to poverty.

Table of Contents

Abstractii

Introduction4

What is Poverty?4

Types of Poverty4

Poverty can be sub categorized into three other branches i.e.4

Absolute Poverty5

Relative Poverty5

Social Exclusion5

Causes of Poverty5

Effects of Poverty on Health6

Community Policy on Health and Poverty7

Objectives for Policy7

Priority Analysis7

Increased Gap in the Health Sector8

Strategy for Poverty Reduction and Social Exclusion in the UK9

Multidimensional Approach9

Main Objectives and Measures10

Measuring Success11

Current Health Status of UK12

Action Plan for Reduction of Poverty from UK13

Poverty

Introduction

United Kingdom is a giant county with many people living around the global territory. These people are struggling with various issues and one of the major issues is of poverty. The PRSP describes the national plan on macroeconomic, structural and social policies for the implementation of three-year economic adjustment programs aimed at boosting growth and reducing poverty, and identifies the associated external financing needs and major sources of funding.

What is Poverty?

Poverty is described by various researchers in a number of different patterns according to some researchers poverty is the lack of essential items required for proper living hood such as food, clothing, water and shelter. It is related to the gap that prevails between income and corresponding consumption of a human being (www.dfid.gov.uk).

Types of Poverty

Poverty can be sub categorized into three other branches i.e.

Absolute Poverty

Relative Poverty

Social Exclusion

Absolute Poverty

The concept of absolute poverty is confined in certain boundaries where there is the lack of sufficient resources for survival. Furthermore, many researchers defines absolute poverty as a tool for measuring the amount of units consumed per year based upon the estimated value of the basket of good one posses for respectable living.

Relative Poverty

The term relative poverty is related to the insufficiency in the material needs that are mandatory to daily life. More precisely, if defines the lack of resources on a regular bases.

Social Exclusion

The concept of social exclusion is new in the contemporary era. It is a more common term used by government officials to describe a combination of problems that are related to unemployment, low income levels, poor housing, increasing crimes, poor skills and knowledge and serious family health.

Causes of Poverty

Poverty in society possesses strong roots with social inequalities. There could be many possible reasons for poverty such as:

Unemployment

Incompetence

Non Curable Diseases

Mental Illness

Inherit Poverty

Personal Choice to be Poor

The most common threshold of low in United Kingdom is a household income that is 60 percent or it is less than the average of British household income per year. The 2008-2009 statistics suggests that approximately 13 million people ...