Asian health is at risk

The economic transformation in Asia is threatening the health of the people in the region, a warning warned by Australian Tarantola professor on July 7.

According to Tarantola, Professor of Human Rights and Health at the University of New South Wales, despite having made tremendous progress with 600 million people out of poverty in Asia since 1990, the health situation In this continent is threatened and the future is even more uncertain.

" The gap between the rich and the poor is increasing. The poor become more ill in crowded, polluted slums when Asia is rapidly urbanizing, while the diseases are rich like cardiovascular disease. , cancer . is attacking the new elite , "he said.

A children's examination in Balasore, India .
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" The basic human rights of health and economic development are inextricably linked, so we must understand this complex relationship if we want to improve the health of the people. " .

Asia is particularly vulnerable because health care costs in the continent are the highest, while the share of government spending on health is the lowest.

In October, the first international conference on health, human rights and development will be held in Hanoi, taking into consideration the key risks to public health and health in the region and around the world.