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| Culture of Poverty Theory | A theory proposed by critics of welfare that was introduced in response to the policies enacted by President Lyndon Johnson. It refers to entrenched attitudes that can develop among poor communities and lead the poor to accept their fate rather than attempting to improver their lot. |
| True | Sometimes the poor continue to rely on these entrenched attitudes (in the culture of poverty theory) and practices even after they are no longer useful and are potentially detrimental. |
| War on Poverty | The administration of Lyndon Johnson established a wide range of antipoverty programs in the 1960s-programs for education, job training, and placement, housing-as a part of its War on Povert. |
| James Rosenbaum | A sociologist who studied an assisted living program in Chicago in 1994. He studied the effects of relocating about 7000 poor inner city black families in public housing (high poverty) to subsidized housing in the white middle class suburbs (low poverty) of Chicago. |
| MTO (Moving to Opportunity) Program | This study inspired the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to launch the MTO that helps relocate low income families in urban areas to low poverty neighborhoos. |
| MTO has shown that living in a quieter less stressful environment has | positive effects on children |
| Absolute poverty | The point at which a household's income falls below the necessary level to purchase food to sustain its members. |
| Relative poverty | A relative measure of poverty based on a percentage of the median income in a given location. |
| Morbidity | A term that means illness in a general sense |
| Mortality | A term that refers to death |
| Whitehall Study | Examined the mortality rates over ten years among 18,000 male British Civil Servants aged 20 to 64. It found that those with a lower grade of employment had higher mortality rates, while those with a higher grade of employment had lower mortality rates. |
| Those with the lowest employment status or grade had a 3 times higher mortality rate | than those with the highest status. |
| Social factors have a greater influence on one's health | than health care and health care systems. |
