Senate report on poverty: poverty line update [ Senate report on poverty ]

Poverty in Canada: Report of the Special Senate Committee on Poverty [ Poverty in Canada | Report of the Special Senate Committee on Poverty ]

income poverty | monetary poverty

Definition: A disorder, usually first manifest during early childhood (and always well before puberty), characterized by a persistent and intense distress about assigned sex, together with a desire to be (or insistence that one is) of the other sex. There is a persistent preoccupation with the dress and activities of the opposite sex and repudiation of the individual's own sex. The diagnosis requires a profound disturbance of the normal gender identity; mere tomboyishness in girls or girlish behaviour in boys is not sufficient. Gender identity disorders in individuals who have reached or are entering puberty should not be classified her ...[+++]e but in F66.-.

Definition: The essential feature is a persistent preoccupation with the possibility of having one or more serious and progressive physical disorders. Patients manifest persistent somatic complaints or a persistent preoccupation with their physical appearance. Normal or commonplace sensations and appearances are often interpreted by patients as abnormal and distressing, and attention is usually focused upon only one or two organs or systems of the body. Marked depression and anxiety are often present, and may justify additional diagnoses. | Body dysmorphic disorder Dysmorphophobia (nondelusional) Hypochondriacal neurosis Hypochondriasis ...[+++]Nosophobia

Definition: A disorder characterized by the development either of a single delusion or of a set of related delusions that are usually persistent and sometimes lifelong. The content of the delusion or delusions is very variable. Clear and persistent auditory hallucinations (voices), schizophrenic symptoms such as delusions of control and marked blunting of affect, and definite evidence of brain disease are all incompatible with this diagnosis. However, the presence of occasional or transitory auditory hallucinations, particularly in elderly patients, does not rule out this diagnosis, provided that they are not typically schizophrenic and ...[+++]form only a small part of the overall clinical picture. | Paranoia Paranoid:psychosis | state | Paraphrenia (late) Sensitiver Beziehungswahn

poverty [ economically weak | fight against poverty | new poor | poor ]

Persistent poverty in the EU is slightly more than half the figure for a single year, 9% of the people affected between 1997 and 1999 having an income below 60% of the median in each of these three years, as opposed to 15% in 1999 (Graph 4 Population at risk/persistently at risk of poverty, 1999).

Targets would introduce a new dynamism; they could be set for the reduction of poverty in general as well as for specific forms of poverty, such as child poverty which is currently three points higher than the poverty rate for the total population (19 against 16%), and concerns one child in four in some countries; in-work poverty which hits 8% of the working population and is on the increase; persistent, long-term poverty, for which robust indicators will be available soon; and poverty of older people (65+), which is also an indicator of pension adequacy.

The commitment to research and monitor relative income poverty is welcome, particularly in view of the fact that the 'consistent' poverty measure has recorded dramatic decreases, that are contradicted by rises in the risk of poverty indicator.

At the start of the decade, the number of citizens of the enlarged EU who were at risk of poverty and persistent poverty was very high: 15% and 9% respectively.