首页
登录
职称英语
Large parts of the world have not enjoyed the remarkable global progress in
Large parts of the world have not enjoyed the remarkable global progress in
游客
2023-12-24
26
管理
问题
Large parts of the world have not enjoyed the remarkable global progress in health conditions that have taken place over the past century. Indeed, millions of deaths in impoverished nations are avoidable with prevention and treatment options that the rich world already uses. This year, 10 million children will die in low and middle income countries. If child death rates were the same as those in developed countries this figure would be lower than 1 million. Conversely, if child death rates were those of rich countries just 100 years ago, the figure would be 30 million. Today’s tools for improving health are so powerful and inexpensive that health conditions could be reasonably good even in poor countries if policy makers spent even relatively little in the right places.
Recent research for the Copenhagen Consensus identifies several highly cost-effective options that would tackle some of the planet’s most urgent health problems. The most promising investment is in tuberculosis treatment. Some 90 percent of the 1.6 million tuberculosis deaths in 2003 occurred in low-and middle-income countries. Because tuberculosis affects working-age people, it can be a trigger of household poverty. The cornerstone of control is prompt treatment using first-line drugs, which doesn’t require a sophisticated health system. Spending $1 billion on tuberculosis treatment in a year would save 1 million lives. Because good health accompanies higher levels of national economic welfare in the long run, the economic benefits are worth $ 30 billion.
The second most cost-effective investment is tackling heart disease. Heart disease might not seem like a pressing issue for poor nations, but it represents more than a quarter of their death toll. Measures to reduce risk factors other than smoking — high intake or saturated animal fat, obesity, binge drinking of. alcohol, physical inactivity, and low fruit and vegetable consumption — have had little success. Treating acute heart attacks with inexpensive drugs is, however, cost-effective. Spending $ 200 million could avert several hundred thousand deaths, yielding benefits that are 25 times higher than costs.
The third option is prevention and treatment of malaria. A billion dollars would expand the provision of insecticide-treated bed-nets and facilitate provision of highly effective treatment. This would save more than a million child deaths and produce economic benefits worth $ 20 billion.
The fourth alternative for policymakers is to focus on child health initiatives. The best measures are familiar ones expanding immunization coverage, promoting breastfeeding, increasing the use of simple and cheap treatments for diarrhea and childhood pneumonia, and so on.
Even if the costs of all these initiatives were two or three times higher than we estimate, these efforts would still provide amazing opportunities to reduce health inequality and do good in the world. [br] What would be the best title for this passage ?
选项
A、Best Options for Tackling World’s Killer Diseases.
B、Cost-effective Investment in Impoverished Nations.
C、Health Inequality between Developed and Developing Countries.
D、Earth’s Killer Diseases: Tuberculosis, Heart Attack and Malaria.
答案
B
解析
这是道主旨题。全文是围绕cost-effective investment展开的,因此最佳答案是B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3300378.html
相关试题推荐
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
Inthepopularmind,theInternetistherealizationoftheglobalvillage,
随机试题
[originaltext]Inthenot-sodistantpast,mostpeoplethoughtthatwhenaw
Itwasnothotthatday,butmanyweresweltering.JuliusStretcher.the
Wehaveproducedtwiceasmuchsteelthisyear______4yearsago.A、thanwedid
关于平装书刊的装帧加工的说法,正确的是()。A.平装书刊的装帧加工,主要是包封
机电设备的接地方式有()。A.浮地 B.单点接地 C.多点接地 D.
心肺复苏的下列描述哪项错误()A.常规吸氧 B.纠正低血压 C.心搏骤停
影响产品责任保险费率的因素有()。 A.产品的特点及可能对人体或财产造成损害
朱智贤主编《心理学大词典》定义的心理咨询范围包括()。 (A)轻度心理失常
设某地区某时流通中的通货为1500亿元,中央银行的法定存款准备金率为7%,商业银
从会计学的角度看,对资本磨损的补偿进行的投资称为()A.净投资 B.重置投资
最新回复
(
0
)