UNIT 1: TASK 1 - COLLABORATIVE WORK 1

HASBLEIDY NATHALIA AGUIRRE

ANGELA MARIA ROA
PAOLA ANDREA BURBANO
JHOAN STED ROSARIO

GRUPO: 151021_4

TEACHER:
CAROLINA JAIME

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA

GEOPOLITICA
CEAD JOSE ACEVEDO Y GOMEZ
OCTOBER
 HEALTH INEQUALITY IN POOR POPULATIONS.

This issue is of great importance since in general where there is more poverty
there are more health problems, the cause is that populations living in these
conditions do not have the resources or advice necessary to take corrective
measures to these health problems with which They live daily. The idea is to
identify and characterize health problems according to their demographic structure
and thus prioritize the health problems of each population subgroup describing
their epidemiological behavior.

Currently, the frequency of this problem is very latent as the increasing number of
people in poverty is increasingly seen and many of the health-level aids are not
being received by poor populations if health subsidies are not being provided. to
people who have how to make their health contributions.

The serious thing that vulnerable populations do not have optimal health services
is that there are many cases of "poor" people with chronic diseases who are not
being provided a health service is more today there are many people with a health
service subsidized and do not have the resources to pay for a separate health
service. These people often do not have the vaccination service for their children, it
seems to me that it is very serious since the health services are poor people, it is
increasingly deteriorated and we all have the right to health of the same quality.

The causes of poverty in the world. Poverty is an epidemic that affects millions of
people on our planet. Worldwide, 1.4 billion people suffer from extreme poverty
and almost 900 million suffer from hunger, do not have access to drinking water
and other basic services such as health and education.

Health inequalities and health of the poor what do we know about it? What can we
do?
First, it is necessary that professionals who give high priority to the different but

related objectives of poverty alleviation, reduction of inequalities and promotion of

equity recognize that their common concern for distributive aspects of health

policies is much more important than the differences that could separate them.

Secondly, we must reformulate the health policy objectives, currently expressed in

averages over the population as a whole, so that they specifically address the

situation of the poor and the differences between the poor and the rich. Infant

mortality among the poor or the differences between it and that of rich populations

would be, for example, more useful indicators than the average of that figure

obtained over the population as a whole.

While we compare the large numbers of deaths of children, youth and the elderly of

those who inhabit a population with high poverty and who in the social world do not

even realize people who die daily due to lack of good health or at least one medical

center where they can attend and keep a check if they don't starve to death

because of diseases that they don't even want to recognize, diseases that develop

because of the misconduct of a useless government that doesn't know how to take

care of our people leaving them adrift forgetting them completely, without water,

without food, without health and without education. What can we expect from them

if we do not even give them the opportunity to live as normal people, if there is no

education as we will one day leave this poverty that is being lived, they will be wild

they will not think when bringing children to the world, if there is no health for them

they will continue to contribute more and more disease development and we can
never end them. We have to give them the opportunity of life and opportunity of

study so that these people are the future of tomorrow.

The diseases that we can find in these poverty populations are:

Infectious diseases such as lung, diarrheal, HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

are the ones that take more lives in those nations. In addition, the complications of

pregnancy and childbirth together are still one of the leading causes of death, since

they end the life of mothers and infants.

In low-income countries these are the diseases that claim the most deaths,

according to WHO data

1. Infections of the lower respiratory tract: 2.94 million deaths

2. Coronary heart disease: 2.47 million deaths

3. Diarrheal diseases: 1.81 million deaths

4. HIV / AIDS: 1.51 million deaths

5. Apopletic attack and other cerebrovascular diseases: 1.48 million deaths

6. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: 0.94 million deaths

7. Tuberculosis: 0.91 million deaths

8. Neonatal disorders: 0.9 million deaths

9. Malaria: 0.86 million deaths

10. Prematurity and low birth weight: 0.84 million deaths

In contrast, the diseases for which more people die in middle-income countries are:

apopletic attack and other cerebrovascular diseases, coronary heart disease,

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory tract infections; trachea,

bronchial and lung cancers; traffic accidents, hypertensive heart disease, stomach
cancer, tuberculosis and diabetes. It highlights that in the poorest countries 36% of

deaths are under 15 years old; For middle-income countries, this rate drops to 10%

and for high-income countries it is only 1%. More than 14 million individuals die

each year from infectious and parasitic diseases, according to the medical group

without borders.

The most common are: cholera and other epidemic diarrheal conditions, dengue

and dengue hemorrhagic fever, dranculosis (Guinea worm), Chagas disease,

schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis (ascariasis,

hookworm and trichuriasis), leishmaniasis, lepraiasis, leprosy , onchocerciasis,

trachoma, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) and Buruli ulcer.

Many of these ills are related to malnutrition, lack of access to medical care and
lack of health.

Meanwhile, 1,000 million people suffer from neglected tropical diseases (DTE) like

the ones mentioned above, even though they have been eradicated in many parts

of the planet, according to WHO.

Mortality in childhood continues to decline worldwide. In 2009, more than 8 million

deaths of children under 5 years of age were recorded - compared to 12.4 million

deaths in 1990 - however, pneumonia and diarrheal diseases are the two leading

causes of death among children. These are respectively responsible for 18 and

15% of deaths in this age group during 2008.

Another evil that affects children is malnutrition. WHO reports that 115 million

children under five years of age in the world have underweight (below the weight
considered healthy) or malnutrition. This factor causes more than half of their

deaths, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

However, recurrent diseases among the most vulnerable and low-income sectors

vary from country to country. “A poor person in France or Germany is not the same

as one in Africa; Each one has different contexts.”

"In African and some Latin American countries, the diseases that predominate are

infectious infections."

The poorest populations, whether they are in remote rural areas, marginal

suburban neighborhoods or conflict zones, tend to be the most affected by

neglected tropical diseases. These persist when there is poverty and are

concentrated in the most deprived regions of the world.

Although the "diseases of the poor" are treated and "cured", when individuals

return to precariousness they become ill again.

97% of deaths from infectious and parasitic diseases (more than 13 million people

per year) occur in developing countries, due to lack of access to medicines.

“It is a vicious circle and has nothing to do with a budget policy that addresses

health, but with aspects such as infrastructure, food and education. We cannot

blame everything on the government; However, this influences.”

The doctor cures and the poor get sick again, therefore, environmental conditions

and access to work, health, food and education are more important

Clinics, health centers and even hospitals are built to provide "security" to the most

neglected population; However, the real problem is that important deficiencies such

as access to basic services are not resolved.

Possible solutions

An alternative to solve this problem lies in social security systems, which would

have to give access to the entire population, including those with limited resources.

• Seek to generate global funds to address these conditions. It is also necessary to

achieve universality in access to health services.

• That the subsidies they claim to send are given to the people who really need
them. • Raise funds and help our country first before sending elsewhere.

• Create aqueducts for populations that are scarce in these resources.

• Create hospitals near these communities to be treated when they start these
diseases, viruses and not develop into terminal diseases.