Towards a holistic understanding of poverty: A new multidimensional measure of poverty for Australia

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-155

  Callander, Emily J ^a   Schofield, Deborah J ^a,b   Shrestha, Rupendra N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education; Health; Living standards; Poverty; Quality of life; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865464762     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2012.21.2.141     Document Type: Review

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