Introduction Cardiologist Ernest Madu offers a leaflet showing a 4-month-old baby girl born with a disrupted valve in her aorta. The poster advertises a community campaign to raise $60,000 to fly her to Miami, Florida, for surgery. "I heard that she died," Madu says, a somber look overtaking the usual brightness in his eyes. "If that child had been born in the U.S. instead of Jamaica," he adds, "she would have grown up to do what she wanted to do in life: Go to school, get married, have children, and have a career. She died because she was Jamaican” (Walljasper, 2008, pp. 1). According to research from the World Health Organization (WHO) in poor countries, forty percent of deaths is a child fifteen years or younger, in rich countries only …show more content…
263). Under this definition includes childhood immunization, drugs for infectious disease, education relating to sanitation and proper dietary needs, and life sustaining medical treatment. Yet, in TWN almost 10 million children under 5 years of age die yearly from manageable diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia (10 Million Children, 2008). Currently existing, low cost medications could save millions of these children. A course of antibiotics to treat pneumonia costs less than thirty cents, but is not available in poor countries (10 Million Children). People living in TWN also suffer from below par nutrition and associated diseases. A look at health issues in their entirety leads to the conclusion that the delivery system for health, nutrition, sanitation, and medical treatment are not working properly, therefore those most in need in the TWN have little or no access to health care. All citizens of the world should have access to these lifesaving …show more content…
2015, p. B10). His view perfectly sums up why wealthy citizens of the world need to be “our brother’s keeper” in creating worldwide equality in health care. It is incomprehensible to think that people in TWN die every day because they lack basic health care which rich countries have access to. Cardiologist Ernest Madu of Jamaica believes, “Every life is valuable. A person in Indonesia is as important as one in Germany.” He concludes with, “We need to find ways so that health and survival are equitable around the world” (Walljasper, 2009). To make health accessible for those around the world we should listen to what they voice as their
Having been born and raised in a third world country, I can say with certainty that I have experienced the ravaging effect of poverty and lack of health care providers. I still
According to World Health Organization, the statics show that: - The world needs 17 million more health workers, especially in Africa and South East Asia. - African Region bore the highest burden with almost two thirds of the global maternal deaths in 2015 - In Sub-Saharn Africa, 1 child in 12 dies before his or her 5th birthday - Teenage girls, sex workers and intravenous drug users are mong those left behind by the global HIV response - TB occurs with 9.6 million new cases in 2014 - In 2014, at least 1.7 billion people needed interventions against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (“Global Health Observatory data”, n.d.) B. A quote of Miss Emmeline Stuart, published in the article in
Author Christine Mitchell’s “When Living is a Fate Worse Than Death” told the story of a girl Haitian named Charlotte. Charlotte was born with her brain partially positioned outside of her cranium which had to be removed or she would have not survived. Her skull had to be concealed by a wrap in order not to cause further damage. Charlotte was born with less brain cells which allowed her only to breath and not feel much of the pain. Charlotte’s parents thought that the doctor’s in Haiti did not know what was best for their daughter. The doctors in Haiti thought Charlotte should not be resuscitated, undergo anymore horrible treatments and die peacefully. Charlotte’s parents were not happy with the doctor’s guidelines and thought the United States medical care would have better technology and could save their daughter. Charlotte’s parents bought her a doll which
“The only real nation is humanity” (Farmer 123). This quote represents a huge message that is received in, Tracy Kidder’s, Mountains Beyond Mountains. This book argues that universal healthcare is a right and not a privilege. Kidder’s book also shows the audience that every individual, no matter what the circumstances, is entitled to receive quality health care. In the book Kidder represents, Paul Farmer, a man who spends his entire life determined to improve the health care of impoverished areas around the world, namely Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the world. By doing this the audience learns of the horrible circumstances, and the lack of quality health care that nations like Haiti live with everyday, why every person has the right to healthcare no matter what, and how cost effectiveness should not determine whether or not these people get to live or die. Two texts that also argue this idea are Monte Leach’s “Ensuring Health Care as a Global Human Right,” and Darshak Sanghavi’s “Is it Cost Effective to Treat the World’s Poor.” Leach’s article is an interview with Benjamin Crème that illustrates why food, shelter, education, and healthcare are human rights that have to be available to everyone. He shares many of the same views on health care as Farmer, and the two also share similar solutions to this ongoing problem. Leach also talks about the rapidly growing aids epidemic, and how it must be stopped. Like farmer, he also argues that it is easier to prevent these diseases then to cure them. Furthermore, Sanghavi’s article represents many of the questions that people would ask about cost effectiveness. Yet similar to Farmer’s views, Sanghavi argues that letting the poor d...
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...ce of mortality, education can also be given to them about healthy child development and what to expect when they deliver their child. This can help reduce the amount of children becoming ill. A program such as the one described can have a positive impact and has the potential of saving millions of lives.
The topic of healthcare access worldwide isn’t one that leads people to say that as humans we don’t need access to medical services. The questions that come up are more precise. How do we pay for it? What type of system is best? How do we get medical professionals and equipment to the remote areas of the world? What are the limiting factors developing nations face and how do we overcome them? These points of controversy have built our path for tackling this global issue.
...on, race, and political belief, economic or social condition. Improving the poor health of disadvantaged individuals and reducing health gaps is important but not enough to level up health through socioeconomic groups. The objective of tackling health inequalities can be changed to local needs and priorities of a community allowing wide-ranging partnerships of support to be organised. However it needs to be made clear that what can be done to help improve the life chances and health prospects of individuals living in poverty may not come close to bringing their health prospects closer to the average of the rest of the population or prevent the gap living on throughout the generations. Being clear about what is trying to be overcome and achieved needs upmost importance in the development and delivery of policies that will promote health equality across the population.
The healthcare crisis in Africa is a prominent issue that affects all of Africa's residents in some way. The crisis affects African's because preventable diseases and poor living sanitation causes them to have low life expectancy. The high rate of preventable diseases being transmitted throughout the population includes tuberculosis, STI's, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. The issue of healthcare in Africa affects all of the poor people who have limited access to treatment, supplies, healthcare professionals, health facilities, or education. The healthcare system in Africa is inefficient in poor areas and an example includes living in unsanitary, poverty stricken areas that results in malnutrition, infections or viruses, death, and an ...
There are many inequities in this global world; should there be such gross inequities in the health of people around the world? We hear words like health gap, health care inequality and sustainability. What can be done to eliminate the health gap, health care inequities and maintain sustainability? The World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations, private and public are working towards eliminating these disparities. Healthy People 2020 are one such goal that has achieved considerable progress in attaining sustainability in the pursuit of global health goals (Gostin et al., 2013). The health gap can be minimized through health strategies. Among them are essentials for all in this global world; clean air, water, healthy food and adequate housing with hygienic living conditions. Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention and care services should be available to all who seek health care services.
In developing counties. Thousands of children die each year from simple illnesses.
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I chose to investigate the topic of global poverty. Global poverty is a very important and pressing issue. About 1.2 billion people are living in extreme poverty, a term that is defined as living on $1.25 or less (The World Bank 2013). Poverty is the lack and deprivation of basic necessities. With poverty, comes a wide range of difficulties and hardships. The story of one of these 1.2 billion people was recorded by Brittany Aubin in 2013. Bon, a seven year-old Burmese refugee in Thailand, is noticeably small. When faced with the question of his size, he replies with a smile, “It’s because I drink Coke and not milk, because Coke is cheap, and more delicious.” Many families are faced with a similar problem in regards to meeting the needs of their children. Many of those needs must remain not met due to poverty.
Preventing diseases is every countries’ responsibility, whether they are poor or rich. Poor countries lack the knowledge and the money to gain, and expand medical resources. Therefore, many people are not been able to be cured. For wealthy countries, diseases are mutating at incredible speeds. Patients are dying because drug companies do not have enough data to produce vaccines to cure patients. When developed countries help poor countries to cure their people, the developed countries could help underdeveloped countries. Since developed countries can provide greater medical resources to poor countries, people living in the poor countries could be cured. As for the developed countries, they can collect samples from the patients so that the drug companies can produce new vaccines for new diseases. When trying to cure diseases, developed countries and poor countries would have mu...
Recent studies from this American public health association have concluded that four million auxiliary doctors, nurse, and support workers are needed globally, in developing countries, in order to provide a maximum of 80% of primary care. (Policy statement data…). Biomedical engineering, ‘builds on scientific understanding of a disease in order to design new health care technologies’, in order to change how people live (chapter 70 improving…). Developing countries today are facing developing issues within their health care programs. The lack of resources in developing countries is an explanation for the variation and low quality care in developing countries. If first world countries focused the efforts in the developing world and ensure systematic principles, morality, then influential solutions to the enormous health problems can be discovered. The research methodology required gathering relevant information from the specific readings and campus data in order to analyze biomedical engineering in third world countries and reach for a complete understanding in the important of biomedical aid. I hope to clarify, on the following questions through my research: how can the wide range of health issues be addressed? What are devising solutions to local disorders? How can financial aid be properly managed? Is technology an important factor for dramatic improvements in health care systems? This data collection consists of current and active biomedical engineering programs articles in developing countries. First world countries have a moral responsibility for biomedical engineering aid in third world countries to formulate solutions to local disorders, provide financial aid, and improve ...