Disease relevance of Poverty

• This study focused on the use of 14 evidence-based preventive services for the low-income population over age 50: colorectal, breast and cervical cancer screening, cholesterol screening, counseling around diet, exercise, tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs, and immunizations for influenza, tetanus and pneumonia [1].

Psychiatry related information on Poverty

• In a study of the prevalence of low literacy in an indigent psychiatric population, 45 patients seeking mental health services at a shelter-based clinic for the homeless were given the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine screening test [2].
• An extensive battery of instruments was administered to 110 women entering treatment in an intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program in Philadelphia, serving women who are primarily indigent, African-American, and whose primary substance of abuse is crack cocaine [3].
• We measured demographics, reading ability and self-described health behaviors of 646 parents at two private, two university, two indigent and six public child-related clinics in a midwestern city using a bilingual oral interview and the Wide Range Achievement Test. RESULTS [4].

High impact information on Poverty

• Report of the Task Force on the Availability of Cardiovascular Drugs to the Medically Indigent [5].
• METHODS: Consecutive new patients (N = 188) at a clinic for the indigent were confidentially surveyed about their use of six preventive health measures: blood pressure screening, cholesterol level, diphtheria-tetanus immunization, mammography, cervical Papanicolaou smear, and physical examination [6].
• BACKGROUND: A high rate of maternal depression and associated disturbance in the mother-infant relationship has been found in an indigent peri-urban South African community, Khayelitsha [7].
• In specialty referral clinics for epilepsy, particularly those serving indigent populations, the prevalence is 25% to 50% [8].
• Local research and legal advocacy for the medically indigent in Orange County, California [9].

Biological context of Poverty

• Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy. Management of serious infections. Part II: Amenable infections and models for delivery. Public health, indigent care, and prisons [10].

Anatomical context of Poverty

• STUDY DESIGN: Serial ultrasonographic examinations were performed on 1205 fetuses of indigent multiparous women who ultimately gave birth at term [11].

Associations of Poverty with chemical compounds

• Benefits of continued cyclosporine through an indigent drug program [12].
• CONCLUSIONS: Although the provision of timely addiction treatment appears to have increased throughout the 1990s, accessibility problems persist in programs that care for indigent patients and in methadone maintenance programs [13].
• SETTING: Kalafong and Pretoria Academic hospitals, catering for the delivery of indigent women in the Pretoria Health Region [14].
• This report is based on a seven-year retrospective analysis of computerized data available from the Chicago Board of Health's Cancer Control Section and its Cytology Laboratory. All patients included were medically indigent [15].
• CONCLUSIONS: Based on these assumptions, fluoride varnish use in the medical setting is effective in reducing early childhood caries in low-income populations but is not cost saving in the first 42 months of life [16].

Gene context of Poverty

• Complex psychotropic medication and comorbid psychiatric disorder patterns were evident for this low-income population of children with ADHD [17].
• STUDY DESIGN: Perinatal outcomes of 72 patients from a clinic for indigent patients with unexplained elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein levels were compared with those of matched controls from the same population with normal maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein levels [18].
• CONCLUSIONS: Urine samples positive for illicit drugs were significantly more common in women delivering in an urban center serving the indigent population than in those delivering in private hospitals [19].
• Methods. Women 50 to 70 years old with and without screening mammograms 10 to 14 months prior were identified from fiscal, clinic, and radiology records at a military care system (MCS) and a county-funded system (CFS) for indigents [20].
• CONCLUSION: Simple, low cost incentives can be used to improve adherence to TB preventive therapy in indigent adults [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Poverty

• Voluntary active euthanasia: the next frontier. Impact on the indigent [22].
• Following publication of the Task Force's recommendations for improving dental care access among low-income populations, North Carolina has taken several steps forward [23].

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