Introduction
The issue of health is a wide spread global issue. It
affects many places around the world.
The biggest global health threats are preventable
or curable diseases like Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Measles, obesity,
chronic illnesses and breathing infections.
The
global health council have reported that in the year 2000, 12% of world
deaths were caused by disease, and only 9% was caused by road
accidents, poisoning, violence and war.
The issues surrounding these health threats are that of contaminated
water,
overcrowded cities, sanitation, interaction with concentrated animals
and birds, global human movement, change of environment and climate
e.g. global warming and deforestation. In 2004 there were 14.6million
existing
cases of Tuberculosis.
Source: The State of the World's Children 2005, UNICEF
Children and AIDS
"We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria,
or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing
world until
we have also won the battle for safe drinking-water, sanitation and basic
health care."
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
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