My persuasive argument thesis is: Global leaders should take global health as their primary concern.
1. What do people already know about my topic?
Everyone knows that there are gaps of health conditions between the rich and the poor, and poor countries' health problems are usually more serious.
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
-Developed countries' new health problem. Caused by a dietary imbalance
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. Also, health problems in developing countries are usually more serious than those in developed coutries.
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.
Many diseases are emerging in developed countries too. 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. This result is due to dietary imbalance. While obesity rate in developed countries is turning a cornor (The rate of obesity in preschool-age children dropped about 40% over the past decade, according to data from a comprehensive federal survey published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association), obesity rate is drastically increasing in developing countries. 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.
Solving developing countries' health problems and promoting global health are urgent issues and many efforts are needed. If not, health problems will keep bothering all disadvantaged people.
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