The multidimensional relative poverty of rural older adults in China and the effect of the health poverty alleviation policy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Although, especially in the past decade, poverty measurement approaches have been duly developed in two paths (from unidimensional to multidimensional poverty and from absolute to relative poverty), merely a few studies have focused on the combination of both perspectives. However, with global aging, poverty among older adults simultaneously presents multidimensionality and relativity characteristics. This paper explores a multidimensional relative poverty index (MRPI) relative to the aged group in four dimensions, namely, health, social, mental, and material, and then empirically evaluates the specific effects on the MRPI of one of the key targeted anti-poverty policies, that is, the health poverty alleviation policy (HPAP), which includes public health service, medic

SUBMITTER: Zeng W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9354235 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature