Poverty and Healthcare

​Healthcare:

"the efforts to maintain or restore physical, mental, or emotional well-being, especially by trained and licensed professionals"

-Merriam-Webster Dictionary

-Physical therapy

-Rehabilitation

-Labor and delivery

-Orthodontics

-Speech therapy

-Hospice

​Abject poverty is:

"the most severe form of deprivation to basic needs and services that an individual or household can suffer"

-The United Nations

Global poverty is:

"the number of people worldwide who live on less than $2.15 a day"

-Compassion International

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2g2ke_UpSY

-Greater risks of illiteracy

-Greater risks of mortality before the age of 5

-2-3x more likely to die before their 5th birthday

-Far less likely to escape poverty themselves --> transmission mechanism for future generations

• South Sudan - 82.30%

• Equatorial Guinea - 76.80%

• Madagascar - 70.70%

• Guinea-Bissau - 69.30%

• Eritrea - 69.00%

• Sao Tome and Principe - 66.70%

• Burundi - 64.90%

• Democratic Republic of the Congo - 63.90%

-Most Africans (poor and middle class) rely on under-funded public health facilities

-A small group have access to well-funded private health care

-African countries agreed to allocate at least 15% of their budgets to health care in 2001 (only 6 actually did it, 2016)

Why People in Africa Need Healthcare:

-Malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

-50% of children under five who die of pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria are in Africa (WHO)

-People dying of easily curable diseases

-Diseases can spread to other countries (ebola)

-Poor health = no work = no money = harder to survive

-Lack of medicine and resources in healthcare facilities

-More government funding

-Telemedicine

-Expand insurance

-Increase medicine supply and availability --> less people needing to go to a clinic

-More affordable

-Creating more facilities and clinics (accessibility)

-Better education of health and other things related to health

-Cleaner drinking water

-More access to clean drinking water

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Poverty + Healthcare

Conflict Theory:

-People with $ and power make decisions about how the healthcare system should work

-Ensures that they will always have access to healthcare

-Those that are subordinate still lack access