{"id":15896,"date":"2016-01-02T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15896"},"modified":"2016-01-02T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:50:40","slug":"the-global-health-crisis-will-crush-the-global-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15896","title":{"rendered":"The Global Health Crisis Will Crush the Global Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/blogjan16\/global-health1-16.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Global Health Crisis Will Crush the Global Economy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><i>The scale of the global epidemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes are truly staggering.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>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.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here is a list\u2014by no means exhaustive\u2014of major health issues threatening hundreds of millions of people globally.<\/p>\n<p><b>Air &amp; Water Pollution<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.peakprosperity.com\/images\/chs-health-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">Source: Kyodo News<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.peakprosperity.com\/images\/chs-health-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">Source: Independent.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>The statistics are equally horrendous:\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<p>Though the winter smog in Chinese cities is infamous, many other Asian nations suffer from equally poor or even worse air quality:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.peakprosperity.com\/images\/chs-health-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The health consequences of severe air pollution are many, and a rising number of deaths are attributable to air pollution:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.peakprosperity.com\/images\/chs-health-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/ejap.org\/environmental-issues-in-asia\/Water%20Pollution.html,%20http:\/\/ejap.org\/environmental-issues-in-asia\/AirPollution.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sources<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>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<p><b>Ageing Populations<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Health Crisis Will Crush the Global Economy The scale of the global epidemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes are truly staggering. 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. 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