{"id":10149,"date":"2024-09-20T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T08:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.effektivaltruism.org\/course\/improving-global-health\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T08:32:15","slug":"improving-global-health","status":"publish","type":"tva_lesson","link":"https:\/\/www.effektivaltruism.org\/en\/course\/improving-global-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving global health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite progress in curing diseases and reducing poverty, around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/poverty\/overview\" style=\"outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">700 million<\/a> people still live in extreme poverty \u2013 meaning living on less than $2.15 a day \u2013 and millions of children die annually from preventable diseases. There are a number of diseases that mainly affect vulnerable populations, such as malaria, HIV, malnutrition and parasitic worms. This not only causes direct suffering. It also worsens people\u2019s conditions to earn a living, participate in educational efforts and improve their living situation. As families try to compensate for high infant mortality, birth rates tend to increase.<\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10150\" width=\"800\" data-init-width=\"1900\" height=\"623\" data-init-height=\"1479\" title=\"Priority areas - Improving global health\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.effektivaltruism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Priority-areas-Improving-global-health.webp\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"623\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 1900 \/ 1479;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/child-mortality-around-the-world?tab=chart\" style=\"outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our World in Data<\/a> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We know how to prevent and treat many of these diseases. It is also cost-effective \u2013 tablets against parasites and mosquito nets that protect against malaria cost only a few dollars. Yet efforts are underfunded and the diseases cause millions of deaths annually. The best opportunities for those who want to work on the problem seem to be donating money to effective charities, working to ensure that resources already spent on global health go where they do the most good, researching cost-effective interventions or working in, or starting, organizations implementing successful health interventions.<\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"9868\" width=\"393\" data-init-width=\"800\" height=\"393\" data-init-height=\"800\" title=\"Jon\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.effektivaltruism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Jon.jpeg\" data-width=\"393\" data-height=\"393\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 800 \/ 800;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Jon has made an inspiring journey, from the arts and humanities, to dedicating his career to public health. In addition to his full-time job as a Tuberculosis (TB) Research Fellow, he has founded tb.care, a non-profit that aims to provide essential information about TB to affected people in rural areas in India.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/stories-impact\/\" style=\"outline: none;\">Read the full story of Jon, and those of other world improvers<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/problem-profiles\/health-in-poor-countries\/\" style=\"outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global health<\/a> \u2013 article by 80,000 Hours<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.effektivaltruism.org\/global-health-and-development\/\" style=\"outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global health cause area profile<\/a> \u2013 article by EA Sweden<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givewell.org\/charities\/top-charities\" style=\"outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top Charities<\/a> \u2013 GiveWell&#8217;s estimate of the most effective charities in global health<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/uploads\/2019\/10\/advanced-economicsciencesprize2019.pdf\" style=\"outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Understanding development and poverty alleviation<\/a> \u2013 report that describes the background to the central bank of Sweden\u2019s prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-10149","tva_lesson","type-tva_lesson","status-publish","hentry","tva_courses-career-guide"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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