POVERTY AND DISEASE – A DEADLY CONNECTION
Q- Is there a connection between poverty and lack of awareness to increased spread of diseases among the inferior people?
Introduction to the connection:
The topic that we have chosen for our Global Perspectives group project revolves around the inter-relationship between poverty and disease (health and disease). Basically poverty and disease are stuck in an ongoing vicious relationship and to support this statement there is ample research that shows certain infection rates are highest in those areas where economic conditions are rife. It is a common thought that poverty is a driving force behind poor health and spreading of diseases but the relationship between poverty and diseases is emphatically …show more content…
To further strengthen my points I can simply state United Nations speech that stated “ One contributing factor to the spread of disease is a lack of across-the-board healthcare.” People should be made to live in an area where the State ensures sanitary, secure and beneficial living conditions designed to keep inhabitants as healthy as possible for as long as possible. According to the Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty, poverty-related circumstances such as “lack of food, shelter, security and social protection make people more vulnerable to infections, while affected populations are often unable to obtain even the most basic means of prevention and care.“ As such, the right to health mandate means ensuring access to clean drinking water, secure housing, sanitary disposal of waste and, of course, access to …show more content…
Basically, our project is too broad themed that any possible issue can be linked with it. Child labor is connected to poverty and disease as basically a family who doesn’t have enough money forces their children to work denying them the right of education. Often these children are forced to work for many long hours and specifically in poor conditions that results in them getting affected by various diseases. These diseases are not given importance by their families and are often left untreated due to lack of awareness and funds and in the end the disease spreads in the whole family and most probably some members
Q- Is there a connection between poverty and lack of awareness to increased spread of diseases among the inferior people?
Introduction to the connection:
The topic that we have chosen for our Global Perspectives group project revolves around the inter-relationship between poverty and disease (health and disease). Basically poverty and disease are stuck in an ongoing vicious relationship and to support this statement there is ample research that shows certain infection rates are highest in those areas where economic conditions are rife. It is a common thought that poverty is a driving force behind poor health and spreading of diseases but the relationship between poverty and diseases is emphatically …show more content…
To further strengthen my points I can simply state United Nations speech that stated “ One contributing factor to the spread of disease is a lack of across-the-board healthcare.” People should be made to live in an area where the State ensures sanitary, secure and beneficial living conditions designed to keep inhabitants as healthy as possible for as long as possible. According to the Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty, poverty-related circumstances such as “lack of food, shelter, security and social protection make people more vulnerable to infections, while affected populations are often unable to obtain even the most basic means of prevention and care.“ As such, the right to health mandate means ensuring access to clean drinking water, secure housing, sanitary disposal of waste and, of course, access to …show more content…
Basically, our project is too broad themed that any possible issue can be linked with it. Child labor is connected to poverty and disease as basically a family who doesn’t have enough money forces their children to work denying them the right of education. Often these children are forced to work for many long hours and specifically in poor conditions that results in them getting affected by various diseases. These diseases are not given importance by their families and are often left untreated due to lack of awareness and funds and in the end the disease spreads in the whole family and most probably some members