My Thoughts on Child Mortality
After focusing on child mortality for a week, I've become deeply aware and conscious of what I used to think of "minimal" or "a little problem" as an actual impact in our world. An idea that I had not originally thought about was the future after a successful reduction of child mortality takes place. If there is a consistent and applicable approach that reduces child mortality, that obviously means that there will be more children living past the age of five. This, itself, has drastic implications that need to be considered. If they live past five years old but are in poor health from complications other than these 5 main causes they will continue to burden the system in other ways. The system needs to be able to support these individuals if they live past the age of five and it would be important to have the healthcare infrastructure to maintain them after childhood. It proves that overall health cannot be improved in easy ways, there must be permanent solutions made. Many of the solutions we have debated about in this week vaccines, vitamins, food cards and other different approaches can be minimal approaches, but not for the long run
After focusing on child mortality for a week, I've become deeply aware and conscious of what I used to think of "minimal" or "a little problem" as an actual impact in our world. An idea that I had not originally thought about was the future after a successful reduction of child mortality takes place. If there is a consistent and applicable approach that reduces child mortality, that obviously means that there will be more children living past the age of five. This, itself, has drastic implications that need to be considered. If they live past five years old but are in poor health from complications other than these 5 main causes they will continue to burden the system in other ways. The system needs to be able to support these individuals if they live past the age of five and it would be important to have the healthcare infrastructure to maintain them after childhood. It proves that overall health cannot be improved in easy ways, there must be permanent solutions made. Many of the solutions we have debated about in this week vaccines, vitamins, food cards and other different approaches can be minimal approaches, but not for the long run
Carmen, you raise a good point in saying that we need to consider long term implications that include providing food and healthcare for more humans if more kids live past the age of five. That being said, I believe that despite overpopulation, there are enough food and resources for everyone to be healthy. However, we do have to make some drastic improvements because, as of right now, the resources are clearly not well distributed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Juangi that the inequality of resources is at the bottom of the problem. We need to bridge that gap in order to be successful at eradicating these issues. Good point though.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you in that I also never had an idea of how big of an issue child mortality truly is.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in that I also never had an idea of how big of an issue child mortality truly is.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in that I also never had an idea of how big of an issue child mortality truly is.
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