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The largest three poverty-related diseases (PRDs)—AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis—account for 18% of diseases in poor countries. [56] The disease burden of treatable childhood diseases in high-mortality, poor countries is 5.2% in terms of disability-adjusted life years but just 0.2% in the case of advanced countries. [56]
The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include:
In South Africa, excess female mortality between 10 and 50 years of age rose from close to zero to 74,000 deaths per year in 2008. In impoverished populations, there are pronounced differences in the types of illnesses and injuries men and women contract. According to Ward, poor women have more heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and infant mortality.
Poverty among children and young people is influenced by poverty in adults that causes a continuous cycle if not prevented. Impacts that poverty have on the youth include lack of access to education and housing, discrimination, mental health problems, and malnutrition. This creates a problem in increased crime rates and social issues which has ...
[3] [4] [5] Prevention is achieved by reducing exposure to the organisms that spread the disease. [3] [4] [5] Treatment is with the antibiotic doxycycline. [2] Epidemic typhus generally occurs in outbreaks when poor sanitary conditions and crowding are present. [6] While once common, it is now rare. [3]
For example, diarrhea, a main cause of malnutrition and stunted growth in children, can be reduced through adequate sanitation. [3] There are many other diseases which are easily transmitted in communities that have low levels of sanitation, such as ascariasis (a type of intestinal worm infection or helminthiasis ), cholera , hepatitis , polio ...
Poor sanitary conditions in the environment that can contribute to malnutrition and disease in children (Kibera, Kenya) The World Health Organization estimated in 2008 that globally, half of all cases of undernutrition in children under five were caused by unsafe water, inadequate sanitation, or insufficient hygiene. [6]
Many adolescent girls and women of menstruating age live in poor socio-economic environments. 663 million people lack basic access to safe water, and 2.4 billion people lack adequate access to basic sanitary conditions. [15] For women and girls, the lack of safe, accessible water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is particularly troubling during ...