Essay On Poverty In Canada

Children from the poorest 20% of households are nearly twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday as children in the richest 20%. Maternal mortality is a key indicator of health inequity. Maternal mortality is a health indicator that shows the wide gaps between rich and poor, both between and within countries. Developing countries account for 99% of annual maternal deaths in the world. Women in Afghanistan have a lifetime risk of maternal death of 1 in 11, while a woman in Ireland has a risk of 1 in 17 800.

Currently, a child dies every three seconds because of poverty, which means that 30,000 children die every day. Children are the first victims of poverty, which is the main cause of the violation of their

Hunger is one of the biggest problems the world faces today, in fact, last night, 870 million people went to sleep hungry (World Food Programme, 2015). That’s a number that is larger than the populations of the U.S and Europe combined. According to the World Food Programme 's statistics for the year 2016, in the time it took me to write this sentence, 14 people have died due to starvation. According to the statistics calculated by the WFP, nearly half of the 21 thousand people that die everyday across the globe from hunger and hunger-related causes, are children. The top 10 countries that suffer from hunger are Burundi, Eritrea, Comoros, Timor Leste, Sudan, Chad, Yemen Republic, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Zambia, respectively (guy-allen, 2014).

These hospitals are running low because their are so many patients that have the flu. This year it has killed 146 people around the whole world and, it hasn’t even hit its peak yet. CDC(Center of Disease Control ) says, “that the flu vaccine is only 36% effective.” The IV saline bags are made in Puerto Rico, and thanks to Hurricane Maria, there are not that many left in stock. Hurricane Maria has left Puerto Rico in the dumps.

According to Emory University, the 20th university in the world, they say, “Each year, 34,598 people die by suicide, an average of 94 completed suicides every day [...] One in 10 college students has made a plan for suicide.” This shows that stress can lead to suicide because people act differently because it can cause people to kill themselves. This means that 10% of all college students have made a plan to kill themselves. Therefore, stress is a huge deal as it can cause many health issues and death.

It is said to be the most devastating outbreak in world history. More people died of the flu in a single year than those who died in the four years of Black Plague from 1347 to 1351. In addition, it killed more people in 25 weeks than AIDS killed in 25 years. The 1918-1919 flu also known as "Spanish flu" was a global catastrophe. Epidemics become unmanageable at alarming speeds because people might not use proper treatment, lack of herd immunity.

The Effects of Poverty in America “In 2007 about one out of every eight children in America was on food stamps. Today that number is one out of every five” (U.S Census Bureau). This statistic from the U.S Census Bureau illustrates how the poverty level of Americans is getting worse and worse. This statistic explains what every day poor American families must face and that it also greatly affects the lives of their children. In today’s society, America is ailed by the instantaneous increase of Americans living in poverty, causing families to take several risks in order to provide all of their family’s necessities.

Health and contact sports are something parents worry about as over 500 deaths in the past 3 years from contact sports alone are making parents stand out against these sports and if the government doesn 't do anything about it the number of 7% overall contact sports drop will just keep getting lower and lower each time. Dr. William Speight also had this to say “Many other kids have suffered paralyzing spinal injuries”(Pennington). Kids being paralyzed is the fear for many athletes these days and the number f kids getting paralyzed has increases 2% which is equivalent to about 8,000 kids each year which is crazy to think about kids can 't play sports for the rest of thrie and maybe not be able to live their life because of it so next you hear mom or dad i wanna play sports your answer should be a simple NO. Kids under 10 need to stop playing contact sports because 45% of kids under 10 getting hurt are from contact sports and 5% of the time its ending that kids chances to play sports in the feature, Not to mention contact sports can also make kids go to their fullest and being burned out and although contact provide some kids will useful tools in life most of the time there is more negative than positive. Health, Age, Contact, parents, are some of the many reasons contact sports can be very dangerous for the youth.

The cause of this is similar to causes of sickness in the book. Mostly, it is caused by the need of better nutrition, which is held by because of poverty. Furthermore, poverty causes problems to people psychologically. The obvious side of poverty and health is of course, that poverty doesn’t allow an individual to be healthy physically. But there is more to this; it also changes the way a person think.

Conditions for the small country worsened as a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, and over 300,000 people were killed, and 1.5 million were displaced, leaving them homeless. Just months after the earthquake hit, Haiti experienced the worst cholera outbreak in recent history, killing thousands, and infecting more than 6% of the population (Cook). Despite efforts from humanitarians and charities around the world, things never seemed to get better as access to clean drinking water and safe shelter became scarce. As the environment became virtually uninhabitable, many Haitians came to the United States, seeking asylum, and an opportunity to better the lives for themselves and their

Each year diseases caused by polluted drinking waters like cholera and typhoid kill 250 million people worldwide. 15 million of these people being children under the age of five. It is estimated that about 1000 children die every day in India due to polluted water. About 700 million people worldwide drink contaminated water. Just over 25 years ago only one-third of the United States’ waters were safe for fishing and swimming.

“About 48 million people (1 in 6 Americans) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases” (U.S. FDA). Those numbers are far too high to accept as a statistic, thousands of people are dying from pathogens that could be prevented if meat inspection had more

Researchers have proven that second hand smoke is very bad for you and other people. It is responsible for more than 600’000 premature baby deaths. Babies should get the chance to live, but second hand smoking takes that from them. Smoking is the most preventable death in the world. It has killed more than five-million people a year.

Bank failures began and spread rapidly, fourteen thousand business failed by the end of the year, and the next four years were spent in the worst depression ever seen. The government struggled to cope under the crisis, and opposition to the gold standard began. Federal and state governments were unable to alleviate the effects of the depression on its people, and unrest throughout the nation began. Unemployment climbed to 20 percent and thousands of strikes occurred in the duration of the depression. The depression ended in 1897, and the government had the help of investors to help bail the country out of the severe

Obamacare imposes restrictions and regulations on insurance companies that have made it harder for people to purchase insurance from their workplace. “During the first half of 2014, Heritage Foundation analysis of the market enrollment data found that net enrollment in employer-group coverage declined by almost 4 million individuals” (5 Reasons 1) This is terrible in that