Health
Health is closely linked to every other global issue. For example –
Population growth drives people into previously uninhabited areas where they encounter new pathogens, while greater numbers of people living and moving in the world rapidly transmit disease.
Poverty is a major contributor to ill health. Poor people – especially women and children – often cannot afford adequate nutrition, clean water, or access to medical attention. Ill health, in turn, traps people in or condemns them to poverty.
Ill health is a security threat. Health problems hold the potential to reduce economic output to the point that entire regions may be destabilized, as is the case of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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