Problem
Reappearing signs of underdevelopment in industrialized countries
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Regressive development within industrialized countriesRe-emergence of social symptoms
Resurgence of signs of worsening conditions
Nature:
Much of the progress achieved in recent decades improving human health is at risk. Severe economic and social crises, and natural disasters in diverse places have caused many national health systems to collapse, resulting in a resurgence of diseases that were once under control. Disabled by these diseases, some societies have been unable to recover. Conditions are critical where there is a proliferation of slums and squatter settlements with millions of people lack safe and adequate drinking-water, sanitation and solid-waste disposal facilities. Almost half the world's population suffers from diseases associated with insufficient or contaminated water where they are at risk from waterborne and foodborne diseases, of which diarrhoeal diseases are the most deadly. Incidence:
Some 29 new diseases have emerged in the last 20 years. Other infections are now so resistant to drugs that they are virtually untreatable. Making matters worse, deadly new diseases such as AIDS and Ebola haemorrhagic fever, for which there is no cure or vaccine, are emerging in many parts of the world. Diseases that once seemed to be subdued, such as tuberculosis and malaria, are fighting back with renewed ferocity. Some diseases, such as cholera and yellow fever, are striking in regions once thought safe from them.There are signs that diseases which emerged from Asia to ravage Europe in the past might be returning to Russia and, with the opening of borders, could spread westwards through Europe. In 1993 a woman is southern Kazakhstan was diagnosed with Bubonic Plague. Tuberculosis is soaring in Russia and malarial mosquitoes are breeding in the reservoirs around Moscow. For the first time in several years, two cases of cholera also occurred in Moscow.
Broader Problems:
Deterioration of development process Narrower Problems:
PlagueCholeraMalariaDiphtheriaMalnutritionEnvironmental pollutionInfectious drinking waterBreakdown of local community cohesionInadequate and insufficient immunization Related Problems:
Human racial regressionPersonal isolation in modern communities Aggravates:
Fragility of maintaining basic health Strategies:
Reducing social symptoms of ill healthMonitoring underdevelopment in industrialized countries Subject(s):
Medicine → DiagnosisSociety → Social
Industry → Industry
Research, Standards → Signs and labels
Development → Development
Development → Progress
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST