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This? ?6? ?page paper provides an overview of poverty and how it impacts the most vulnerable members of our society.? ?The contention is made that in order to address those impacts we must provide education,? ?health care,? ?jobs,? ?housing and other infrastructural improvements.? ?Bibliography lists? ?2? ?sources.
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racial, or cultural borders, it especially affects those in developing countries around the world. Various attempts have been put into place to define poverty and its impacts. These
include government-provided figures as to what incomes fall into the poverty classification and unofficial exposes of poverty such as those rendered by the modern media. All of these attempts,
unfortunately, do little to clearly depict the true nature of poverty. What is clear is that the impacts of poverty are tremendous. This is particularly true when we
consider those impacts as they are felt by women and children. The thesis might be presented that in order to effectively address these impacts we must attend to factors
such as education, health care, jobs, and housing that play such a critical role in determining life outcome. The thesis presented above can be supported in a number of ways.
First, women and children are very vulnerable to disease. Their sickness goes longer and their whole families suffer mentally, emotionally, and physically as a result. Wood (2003) observes
that millions of children, in particular, are more susceptible to poverty simply because of where they reside. Factors such as an overcrowded population and improper living conditions are of
particular concern. So too are high death rates. Poverty in developing nations often goes hand-in-hand with "unsafe water supplies, inadequate sanitation and insufficient hygiene practices" (Graf, Meierhofer,
Wegelin and Mosler, 2008, 335). Not surprisingly, an estimated 4000 children die daily in less developed countries "from the consequences of diarrhoeal diseases" (Graf, Meierhofer, Wegelin and Mosler, 2008,
335). Obviously, there are many other ways that a childs environment can adversely affect their health or even lead to their or their loved ones death.
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