Essay On The Effects Of Poverty On Mental And Emotional Health

The Effects of Poverty on the Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth Implications for Prevention Summary Poverty affects children many ways. Many would argue that the more poverty stricken a child is, the less likely they are to show high levels of mental, emotional, and behavioral health. This article contains four main purposes in mind when evaluating this issue and its effect on children. Its goals were to define and describe the definitions of poverty, propose a conceptual framework that involved the process of how people become impoverished, use the framework proposed to assess literary works on how family poverty affects the youth, and describe strategies to lessen poverty. Poverty is a word not easily defined and completely narrowed down to one category. The word poverty must be defined in different perspectives relative to the people it is affecting and the circumstances that have led them there. The article recognizes there being many types of poverty. These types of poverty include absolute, relative, subjective, and asset. Absolute poverty is represented by being below an objective external standard and not being able to afford the basic needs. Relative is described as being below fifty to sixty percent of whatever the national household income is. Subjective is viewed as a …show more content…
Many believe this increase in childhood obesity is correlated to the amount of television currently being watched by youth. This article discusses how the content type of television programs aids in increasing childhood obesity. The article proposed there are three primary pathways that television may lead to obesity. The method they used to retrieve their data was an initial questionnaire given to the primary care givers of 3563 children. They then used body mass index z scores and watched television format to compare the proper data they received