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Health Priorities in Developing Countries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2021
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Developing countries are faced with the mutually perpetuating obstacles of poverty and inadequate development. Their needs are often so vast that their scarce resources prove too meager even to begin to address the problems.
It is estimated that close to 2.2 billion people live in a state of severe poverty. The precarious housing and health of these people, 60 percent of the population of developing countries, are compounded by hunger and dangerous environmental conditions. Generally, they have large families and their incomes are extremely low. Malnutrition is widespread despite the fact that 80 percent of their earnings are spent on food.
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