Why Disease Is Predominant in Poor Countries

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Why do poor countries have a predominance of infectious disease as opposed to the lifestyle-related diseases of wealthy countries? What is your response to the global health inequalities that exist?
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I have chosen the question about because I can relate to it the most and also it is a global issue. Since I have spent a reasonable time i both poor/developing and wealthy/developed country. I have lived in India for six years after I have fleet from Tibet with is occupied by communist china, and it has been more than five years since I start my life in Australia. Using Willis’ sociological imagination template (1993; 2011, as cited in Germov 2014, P.6) the most relevant factors are historical, cultural and structure factors. My country Tibet has 2000 years of history and it was independent before 1949. People had freedom of movement and speech in their daily life, shared and enjoyed freedom and could criticise the government. Unfortunately in 1949 my country was occupied by communist china, and since then, like son covered by a cloud, my country is controlled and we lost our basic rights. It was then I realised that the government was not stable, social policies caused horrible situations and people faced lots of problems existing in their dad to day life. In the government people who got high level positions did not care for the general people and their basic needs such as healthcare, education, shelters, clothes, food, and clean water to drink. It was then when I and my family fleet to India. I When India was ruled by British they have lived in a harsh environment with very limited nutritious, healthcare, education and clean drink water. After they got independent they had to start reconstruct the government legi...

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...nd Germov, 2014, p. 66)

As for me, I think this is one of the most unbelievable and scariest truth of us human being. After watching the BBC globalisation video it is sad and terrifying to realise that 80 percent of the world’s resources are used by only 20 percent of the world’s population. According to United Nations Development Programme (2014) there are 35 million people living with HIV. Rate of new infections of HIV have declined by twenty percent in the year of 2001 to 2011. Base on my experiences TB is most common infectious disease in both India and Tibet. Since there aren’t much academic sources to support that Tibet is suffering from infectious diseases because, in most case Tibet doesn’t count as an independent country. But in India TB is one of the leading causes of mortality in India, killing 2 person every three minute, nearly one thousand every day.

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