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Impacts- Econ Good- HealthEconomic Productivity solves Poverty, Disease, and War Bailey 7 (Ronald, Ronald Bailey is the award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and Reason.com, where he writes a weekly science and technology column , August 1, “Peace and Prosperity Through Productivity Can economic growth solve all the problems in the world?”, http://www.reason.com/news/show/121697.html) ET Productivity can save the planet and produce peace and prosperity for all. Productivity is the tool that can eliminate all of the scourges of humanity—poverty, hunger, disease and war. Norwegian-American economist and business consultant Tor Dahl passionately made this argument in his keynote presentation at the World Future Society's annual meeting. Dahl is the chairman emeritus of the World Confederation of Productivity Science. One must be on guard against the exaggerated claims of the mavens of any discipline for the significance of their field. Of course, mavens believe that what they do is vitally important, otherwise why would they do it? That said, Dahl was very persuasive. Economic decline turns disease- kills health Robinson 9 (Andrew, fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Emerging Health Threats Journal, 6.12.9, tp://www.physorg.com/news163993567.html) ET There are concerns that the financial crisis has already hit tuberculosis control, which has global ramifications, says Robertson.“There are already indications that funding for TB diagnosis and management is decreasing in developing countries and a surge of new cases there may flow onto the US and other countries,” he says.Healthcare in developed countries will also suffer if budgets are cut and incomes fall. Fewer people are accessing private health services in the USA, which will increase the burden on public health services.Resources for disease surveillance are often cut back during difficult economic times, jeopardising the systems we rely on to identify and deal with emerging diseases - including the current swine flu epidemics.The 1995 economic crisis in Mexico led to 27,000 excess deaths in that country alone - but the effect of this far greater, global downturn is currently “impossible to quantify,” according to Robertson. Economic decline leads to disease spread Alexander, 9 (Brian, MSNBC staff writer, msnbc, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29599786) ET To most Americans, diseases with names like dengue fever, chikungunya, malaria, Chagas and leishmaniasis might sound like something out of a Victorian explorer’s tales of hacking through African jungles. Yet ongoing epidemics of these diseases are killing millions of people around the world. Now, disease experts are increasingly concerned these and other infections may become as familiar in the United States as West Nile or Lyme disease. Few believe Americans face a killer epidemic from tropical diseases. But scientists who specialize in emerging infectious diseases say such illnesses may become more common here as the economic downturn batters an already weakened public health system, creating environmental conditions conducive to infectious diseases spread by insects or other animals. At the same time, such vector-borne diseases are capable of spreading around the world much more rapidly due to massive south-to-north immigration, rapid transportation, and global trade. Impacts- Econ Good- HealthDeteriorating economies hurt women’s maternity and AIDS prevention International People’s Health Council 94[Third World Network, http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/sap-ch.htm] In addition to the negative impact on women's health associated with the general decline in communicable disease control and health care provision, there is evidence that morbidity and mortality associated with pregnancy has also been aggravated. In a number of countries the introduction of user charges for antenatal and maternity care has been associated with an increase in deliveries conducted at home, as well as those occurring in hospital without previous antenatal care or assessment. The rising costs of transport together with lack of money on the part of poor women have been other contributory factors. Finally, there is evidence, mainly of a qualitative nature, that risk behaviour in relation to HIV transmission has been influenced by deteriorating economic circumstances which have forced an increasing number of women into commercial sex activity. Economic slump leads to disease spread and prevents treatment International People’s Health Council 94[Third World Network, http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/sap-ch.htm] The likely causes of these reversals derive from declines in incomes; increases in food prices; and reductions in health sector spending, which have led to the imposition of user charges for health care, cutbacks in preventive programmes' budgets and interruptions in supply of pharmaceuticals to public health care facilities. These have in turn resulted in inter alia: deterioration in both the quantity and quality of diets, and reductions in immunisation coverage and in utilisation of health services for acute conditions, as well as weakening of disease control programmes. Consequently, the incidence (and possibly the severity) of the vaccine-preventable diseases has probably increased together with mortality from diarrheal disease, respiratory infections and malaria. There has also been a resurgence of certain communicable diseases which were previously substantially under control, particularly malaria, tuberculosis and cholera. All of these have contributed to increased morbidity and mortality, especially amongst children and women. Download 0.75 Mb. Share with your friends:
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