Question

is there a link between poverty and poor health? how does poverty contribute to poor health

Answer 1

Answer: Many factors influences the health condition. Poverty is one of the major factors of the poor health. Poverty cause people unable to have proper food. They eat what they can afford or get. This causes lack of nutrition as our body requires daily energy from these nutrients to function properly. But due to lack of nutrition, people become unhealthy. Children get less food and hence they are sometimes underdeveloped or suffer from malnutrition.

The another reason of poor health is that due to poverty people are unable to live in a proper area, hence there are poor sanitation which increases major risk of diseases specially communicable disease. Poverty causes people to unable to educate themselves and this causes weak mental health condition. Most of the people are unable to avail proper treatment for the diseases or the health issues and hence their health degrades.