Assignment 2: Eradicate Extreme Poverty And Hunger

a) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

To achieve the goal of eradicating poverty and hunger requires multifactorial approach. This goal affects public health directly stimulating working towards decreasing extreme poverty and hunger. Public health service can provide direct impact, such as organizing food aid, help with clothes and medications for those who in great need. The food aid can be distributed through social centers and schools. Nutritional help in schools will be addressed to the children, who are the most vulnerable population in relation to food deficit. Social centers will provide additional food supply to the families and individuals who suffers from the lack of the food. Special attention has to be given to the

The center of the focus should be children from poor families as majority of children who do not attend school at all or drop out from the school at early age come from economically disadvantaged families. To overcome barriers and promote universal primary education public health service can provide direct implementation such as feeding children at the school and provide necessary vitamins and minerals supplementations. Provide health checkup in schools for free of charge. Together with social service public health can organize monetary help for the families those children attend school. Indirect impact will require collaborations with different levels of social and financial structure. Cancellation of fees for school attendance, allowing home schooling, creating separate schools for boys and girls, educating parents about benefits of future educations for their children, giving opportunity for children with disabilities to receive education. To provide education for illiterate adults evening schools can be created. Also indirect impact can be provided by educating more teachers, who will be agree to go to remote and disadvantaged areas to teach children and

Firstly, public health service can provide direct impact but promoting reproductive health education and direct help with contraception, including emergency contraception that can contribute to reproductive autonomy. A lot can be done in ensuring required medical help for women, especially young mothers, as maternal mortality rate is still very high among economically disadvantaged. Public health can organize family planning service, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. Different direct intervention to improve overall health including fighting malnutrition and vitamins and minerals deficiency. Indirect impact can be made on the different levels and in with help of the society. Promoting female general education since early age, prevent violence against women, create social structures (e.g., day care for children) that will give an opportunity for women to get a job and become more financially independent. Public health can work toward educating society about important role women play in the education and health of the future generations. Emphasizing importance of mutual respect and gender