Poverty in the United States
Subtitle: Women S Voices
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783319438313
Subjects: Poverty; United states, economic conditions
Description: "Explores the deep relationships between poverty, health/mental health conditions, and widespread problems as they affect the lives of low-income women. A robust source of both empirical findings and first-person descriptions by poor women of their living conditions, it exposes cyclical patterns of structural and environmental stressors contributing to impaired physical and mental health. Psychological conditions (notably depression and PTSD), substance use and abuse, domestic and gun-related violence, relationship instability, and hunger in low-income communities, especially among women of color, are discussed in detail. In terms of solutions, the book's contributors identify areas for major policy reform and make potent recommendations for community outreach, wide-scale intervention, and sustained advocacy"--