My name is Mariana Estrada and I am studying economy.
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My name is Alejandro Juncal and I am studying digital animation.
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We are a little team of students that are interested in research information about poverty and how it effects on people’s health.
We hope you read our posts to get a little bit involved in this topic like us and to try and make a change to help eradicate poverty so that people are able to have access to better sanity conditions.
Health Poverty is a project made by students that are concerned about the poor health that millions of people have around the wolrd. This problematic lead us to make investigations and research about the topic. In our blog we post the results and possible solutions to this huge problem that affects many people worldwide everyday.
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We made a survey regarding our research question with the purpose to see how much people know about how poverty affects people’s health care.
1° The first question of our survey was a basic one , we wanted to know if people knew the correct definition of poverty beacause if you understand it’s meaning then you are aware of the consequences it can cause.
We wrote 2 incorrect and incomplete answers and then the correct one, 78.6% of the people anwered correctly and 21.4% of the people chose one of the other two options as you can see in figure 1.
Figure 1: shows the stats for the correct and incorrect options for the definition of poverty
2° The second question was a bit tricky becasue we wanted to know if people knew which organizations of the following: United Nations, International Monetary Fund or the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, helps people that live in poor conditions. In fact, there were two correct answers, the UN and the OCDE.
40% of the people chose the OCDE, 33.3% chose the International Monetary Fund and just 26.7% chose the UN. We can tell that peopel might have thought that all asnwers were correct but decided to chose the one they thought helped the most. You can see these results in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Shows the stats for the options of the organizations that people think help people that live in poor conditions
3° The third question was an open one, we wanted to see if people are aware that poverty causes a negative effect on people’s health, the exact question was: Do you think poverty could affect people’s health? Why? answer briefly
All of the answers were yes, most of them expalined that poverty affects people’s health becasue they have low income so they are unable to buy great food or to have acces to a doctor or a hospital. Which is great because know we know that people everyone who answered the survey are actually aware of how poverty can affect really badly to someone’s health.
4° The fourth question was to see if the know which is the poorest country in the world, becasue if you know which counytry is the poorest then you’ll know were people lack most of great health becasue of they reasons we have already stated.
The options were: Nigeria, Burundi and Mozambique, the correct anwer was Nigeria, which 42.9% of the people chose. The rest of the peole chose either Burundi or Mozambique, even though they are poor countries they are not the poorest. You can see these results on Figure 3.
Figure 3: What country do you think is the poorest?
5° The fifth question was to see if they know aproximately how many people live in extreme poverty, this one was also a tricky one because some people tend to think the amount of peopel that live in poverty is extremly big, even though it is considerably big it is not that carzy. The options for the questions were: 736 milion, 53.5 million and 125 million. The best answer was 125 million which was the second most chosen answer, the most chosen answer was 736 million which is a lot, and almost nobody chose 53.5 million. You can confirm these results on Figure 4.
Figure 4: How many people do people think live in extreme poverty?
6° The sixth question was an open one. We asked them to write three characteristics about poverty. Most of the answers stated three main characteristics whcih were: Low income, lack of education, lack of health.
7° The seventh and final question was more like a request because we wanted to know if they knew abot any project that from any foundation or individual that helps poor people, specially on improving their acces to have a healthier life. All of them said no, expect from one who said: mostly of the U.N. organization such as UNDESA, UNDP and UNOCHA. About others that aren’t from the U.N. I only know the ODI and OXFAM.
The results of this last question only shos that people need to get more involved in these topics, beacause helping is the only way we can reduce poverty, we defenitely can not eradicate it but we can make a little change by helpin or supporting projects that are related to these topics.
You can find the link actual survey on this page too.
In this post you’ll find a timeline that shows some important researches about how poverty affects directly to people’s health when they are unable to have access to proper sanitation conditions or when they are not being well fed, in fact, a lot of matters that are caused by poverty keep away people ffrom being healthy or to live a healthy life.
Today in this blog post we are going to talk about the impact of poverty on health.
Poverty is a huge problem that affects the world and millions of people everyday. Organizations around the globe are trying with their best resources to erradicate this problem from the world’s face, because of the amount of poor population it may take several years for this to happen, but it is possible.
POOR HEALTH
Poor health is our main topic in this blog post. This issue is caused because the income inquality that affects countries around the world and also the lack of services that are provided to poor people. Dhruv Khullar and Dave A. Chokshi, who are important important investigators and doctors in the US, say in their article and investigation published in Health Affairs, that “less than one-hird of low-income workers obtain health insurance through their employer, compared to nearly 60 percent of higher-income workers. Even after implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more than twenty seven-million Americans remain uninsured—the majority of whom are low-income people”. Link to the web site: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20180817.901935/full/.
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