Question

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Lower-income countries often have less access to healthcare and/or emergency
resources. Explore some potential challenges that people living in these countries may
face in terms of emergencies and how they potentially deal with them. How are these
challenges different from health/emergency-related challenges that you have faced?

Answer 1

There is not a great deal of mystery as to why poor people in low income countries suffer from high rates of illness particularly infectious diseases and malnutrition: little food, unclean water, low level of sanitation and shelter, failure to deal with the environments that lead to high exposure to infectious agents

Low-income countries face struggles relating to a poor economy. Issues related to poor economic health include below-average life expectancy, high infant mortality rates, poor educational outcomes, degrading infrastructure, environmental and climate conditions, and poor health outcomes.