Critical Issues in Rural and Urban Health: Poverty in Rural and Urban Communities-A Public Health Issue

Table of Contents

ABSTRACT3

Introduction4

Poverty4

Poverty Effects on Public Health5

The Causes of Poverty in Each Setting-Social, Physical, and Environmental6

Inequality That Produce Health Disparities7

Literature Review9

Extreme poverty and relative poverty11

Social exclusion11

Poverty as a Rural Problem15

The Urbanization of Poverty17

Strategies19

Strategies to Alleviate Public Health Issue19

Implementation Plan21

Evaluation of the Plan23

Conclusion23

References24

ABSTRACT

This research paper has focused on identifying the major issue which has been the cause of health issues and prevailing all over the world. Health is a key determinant of economic growth and development, while the disease is both a cause and effect of poverty. Apart from the serious consequences of ill health to social welfare, also deprives developing countries of human resources, and the high cost of diseases reduces economic growth and limits the resources that governments can commit to invest in public health. Therefore, improving health in developing countries is key to fighting poverty, which is the main objective of the development policy of the European Union. Therefore, this research paper has highlighted the causes and effects of poverty On public health significantly on rural and urban health issues.

Critical Issues in Rural and Urban Health: Poverty in Rural and Urban Communities-A Public Health Issue

Introduction

Poverty

Poverty affects individuals and families throughout the world. Most poor people live in the underdeveloped world, which represent one third of the population. the countries which are developed or under developed, despite their immeasurable renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, their GDP, economic growth rate, and high income per capita still faces the issues of poverty.  It is understood that poverty is the lack of resources required to meet "basic needs" of society or lack of resources for living. These basic needs can be summarized by assigning a relative order of importance, such as health, nutrition, housing and shelter, education, work, recreation. Also, the lack of cash, income, agriculture sustainable technology and high rates of infant mortality can also be characterized in the broad sense of poverty.

 The World Bank, the Inter- Development, the IMF and similar institutions, classify poverty in absolute and relative and have established a minimum consumption basket that represents the basic needs of society study. Of the 5700 million people in the world, about 1300 million live in poverty (Abercrombie, 2000). The poverty is due to many factors, most important: illiteracy, population pressure, poor health, land problems (invasions, migrations, etc.), high dependence on agriculture, problems of climate, government issues (dictatorships, governments, corruption, anarchy, etc.), and wars. Consequences of poverty are, among others, stealing, cheating, fraud, kidnapping, murder; drug trafficking, money laundering and prostitution. 

Poverty is defined as the lack of the necessary resources to satisfy the basic needs or lack of resources to live. Those needs are mentioned in order of their importance: health, nutrition, housing and dress, education, work, recreation, also the lack of monetary income, sustainable agriculture, technology, and high rates of children mortality as identified by The World Bank, the Inter American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other Institutions like (Alice, 2001).

Poverty Effects on Public Health

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