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Summary Poverty and Community Psychology in South Africa
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Summary of relevant concepts of poverty for community psychology interventions.
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Poverty in South Africa1. Poverty defini- - the inability to attain a minimal standard of living, mea-
tions (2) sured in terms of basic consumption needs or the income
required to satisfy them.
- a deprivation of resources, opportunities and choices
2. Indicators of unemployment, food security, housing, basic services, ed-
poverty ucation, health
3. When examining historical determinants - apartheid
poverty in SA, it's
important to con-
sider its...
4. Current poverty the poverty trends between races during Apartheid
trends reflect...
5. Apartheid contri- - majority subsidized resources allocated to White people
butions to pover- (education, health, housing)
ty (3) - white people had better access to grants and pensions
- laws like Group Areas Act economically marginalized
Black people
6. Negative effects - insufficient food
of poverty (5) - susceptibility to diseases (HIV or TB)
- fires from paraffin devices
- infant mortality rate
- low life expectancy
7. Complex chal- - malnutrition
lenges of poverty - uncorrected hearing/visual problems affect intellectual
(7) ability
- parentification of children
- crowded environments/households
- vulnerability to abuse
- increased exposure to crime/violence
- health services less accessible
8. 3 types of 1. poverty alleviation
anti-poverty in- 2. poverty reduction
terventions 3. poverty eradication
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