| Author: Lester R. Brown |
| InfoShare Partner: Earth Policy Institute |
| Publication Date: March 2009 |
| Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper |
| Topics: Child health/survival, Environment and health/population, Immunization, Infectious diseases, other |
| Region: Global |
| Language: English |
| File Size: 0.25 KB |
| File Format: Web Page You should be able to view web pages in your web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.)
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Ensuring basic health care for people in low-income countries is critical to the Plan B goal of eradicating poverty and stabilizing population. While heart disease and cancer (largely the diseases of aging), obesity, and smoking dominate health concerns in industrial countries, in developing countries infectious diseases are the overriding health concern. Besides AIDS, the principal diseases of concern are diarrhea, respiratory illnesses, tuberculosis, malaria, and measles. Child mortality is high.
Additional text and data can be found at http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/Seg/PB3ch07_ss4.htm.
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