{"id":15818,"date":"2015-12-30T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15818"},"modified":"2015-12-30T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:31:13","slug":"the-rising-threats-to-our-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15818","title":{"rendered":"The Rising Threats To Our Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rising Threats To Our Health<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Around the world, general health is declining\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies.<\/p>\n

Here is a list\u2014by no means exhaustive\u2014of major health issues threatening hundreds of millions of people globally.<\/p>\n

Air & Water Pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photos such as these provide graphic evidence that air and water pollution are serious health hazards in many developing nations around the world:<\/p>\n

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Source: Kyodo News<\/em><\/p>\n

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Source: Independent.co.uk<\/em><\/p>\n

The statistics are equally horrendous:<\/strong>\u00a0roughly 40% of all deaths in Pakistan result from polluted drinking water, 500 million people in China lack clean drinking water, and in India, 90% of human waste flows untreated into rivers.<\/p>\n

Though the winter smog in Chinese cities is infamous, many other Asian nations suffer from equally poor or even worse air quality:<\/p>\n

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The health consequences of severe air pollution are many, and a rising number of deaths are attributable to air pollution:<\/p>\n

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(Sources<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Air and water pollution do not stop at borders, and so severe pollution in developing economies has become a health issue in neighboring developed economies as well.<\/p>\n

Ageing Populations<\/strong><\/p>\n

As populations age, health costs rise while the working-age population that must support higher healthcare expenses declines, burdening the middle-aged workers who must support the elderly and the young. Caring for a rapidly expanding population of elderly retirees burdens governments and economies as well as households: as income is taxed to pay for care, there is less money available for other programs and investing in future productivity.<\/p>\n

We all know why healthcare costs rise as the population of elderly retirees grows: chronic non-communicable diseases go hand in hand with age. The costs of treating these lifestyle\/ageing diseases (metabolic syndrome, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc.) soar as the population and incidence of these diseases both rise.<\/p>\n

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The Rising Threats To Our Health Around the world, general health is declining\u00a0 Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies. Here is a list\u2014by no means exhaustive\u2014of major health issues threatening hundreds of millions of people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[127,11343,395,11344,2218,638,11345],"class_list":["post-15818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-diabetes","tag-health","tag-obesity","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-pollution","tag-smoking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15819,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818\/revisions\/15819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}