1. What do people already know about my topic?
Everyone knows that there are gaps of health conditions between the rich and the poor. They also know that people have different health problems according to their health conditions, and the situation that while one is dying due to excessive supply of food, another is dying due to malnutrition.
2. What research has already been done about my topic?
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/twr131a.htm/
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
- Health problems in developing countries. Show that health problems that are rare in developed countries are prevalent in developing countries/ Cause - too expensive medicine
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
- Health problems in developing countries. Show that health problems that are rare in developed countries are prevalent in developing countries/ Cause - too expensive medicine
- Health problems in developed countries. / Different health problem from developing countries. Too much v.s. too little
-Developed countries' health problem in developing countries/ Showing that there are gaps of health problems between the rich and the poor within a country
3. What are the implications of my argument (What if I'm right? What if I'm right and people ignore me?)
Health is related to many other fields, thus, enchancing global health, will also lead to enhancment in many other areas too. If people ignore me, many people will keep dying due to health problems.
My Narration
As everyone knows, health problems are quite different between developing countries and developed countries, so in this esseay, I will divide countries into developing countries and developed countries and talk about their different health problems.
Developing countries, which are nations with lower standard of living, are still suffering from the health problems that already disappeared in developed countries. About 14 million people die each year due to infectious diseases, and many of them are preventable or treatable, such as acute respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria and tuberculosis, taking 45% of deaths in Africa and South-East Asia. This health crisis is caused by several factors such as poverty, lack of access to health services, water and inaccessibility of effective medicine. For example, more than 95% of HIV infections are in developing countries, two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where over 28 million people are living with HIV. AIDS medicine is estimated at US$10,000-15,000 (the Guardian, 12 February 2001). This price level puts such treatment out of reach of most people in the developing world. Malnutrition is also serious in developing countries while it almost disappeared in developed countries. The vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is undernourished. Asia is the continent with the most hungry people which takes two thirds of the total. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest percentage of hunger. One person in four there is undernourished. When malnutrition comes to children, the problem becomes more severe since it can directly lead to death. One out of six children, which is roughly 100million, in developing countries is underweight. While One in four of the world's children are stunted, the proportion can rise to one in three in developing countries.
The 31 percent of population older than 15 in United States of America are obese. Following United States of America, Mexico(24%), United Kingdom(23%), Slovak Republic(22%), Austrailia(22%) are also showing high percentage of obesity. Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death. They spend much money on curing obesity, the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the United States was $147 billion in 2008. To sum up, while one in developing county is dying due to malnutrition and poverty, another in developed country is dying due to excessive nutrition and wealth.
Ironically, as developing countries continue their efforts to reduce hunger, some in those countries are also facing the opposing problem of obesity. As Prakash Shetty, the chief of FAO's(Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations) Nutrition Planning said "We believe obesity is a significant problem that needs to be dealt with, along with the problem of the underfed", Obesity is also a serious problem in developing countries along with malnutrition and other developing countries' health diseases. For example, in China, the number of overweight people jumped from less than 10 percent to 15 percent in just three years. Brazil and Colombia, the figure hovers around 40 percent, a level comparable to a number of European countries. Sub-Saharan Africa, where has the highest number of hungry people, is showing an increase in obesity, especially among urban women. This Statistics show that even within a country, the economy gap between the rich and the poor is serious and this directly leads to different health problems. Anyway, either the rich or the poor, health problem is serious and efforts are needed to solve these problems. If not, health problems will keep bothering people all over the world.
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