Health in developing

nations

Students:
- Guevara Pacheco, Luz Massiel
- Senmache Gallegos, Mercedes Guadalupe
Content
1. Introduction: What about health in developing nations?

1.1. Access to health as a right of human beings

1.2. Important health care resources

2. Factors that influence access to health care in developing nations

2.1. Geographic inaccessibility
2.2. Financial inaccessibility
3. Malnourishment linked to life expectancy
3.1. Susceptibility to major diseases
3.2. Impacts of malnourishment in older adults and young people
4. Conclusions
5. Further opinions
Inaccessibility to quality
health services
Long journeys to reach a
health center
The importance of health
care resources
Factors that influence access to
health care in developing nations

Strategies on the
reorganization
Factors that influence access to
health care in developing nations
Financial accessibility
Malnourishment linked to life expectancy

Susceptibility to major diseases

Malnourishment linked to life expectancy

in older adults
Malnourishment linked to life expectancy

in young people
 Conclusion

Remote villages without

medical resources
 Conclusion

Doctors without the necessary tools to

carry out their work
Conclusion

All people should

have access to
needed health
services
 Conclusion

Make
malnourishment a
higher priority
 Further opinions

High-tech Specialist doctors

health centers in each area
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