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Absolute Poverty Basic Human Needs Water: Health

The document discusses several factors that contribute to and exacerbate poverty, including health issues, lack of access to education, lack of adequate housing and homelessness, natural disasters like earthquakes, and low wages. It states that poverty increases risks of disease, educational underachievement, homelessness, and greater economic impacts from disasters. Poverty is both caused and worsened by a lack of access to basic needs like food, water, shelter, and healthcare as well as unequal economic conditions around the world.

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Absolute Poverty Basic Human Needs Water: Health

The document discusses several factors that contribute to and exacerbate poverty, including health issues, lack of access to education, lack of adequate housing and homelessness, natural disasters like earthquakes, and low wages. It states that poverty increases risks of disease, educational underachievement, homelessness, and greater economic impacts from disasters. Poverty is both caused and worsened by a lack of access to basic needs like food, water, shelter, and healthcare as well as unequal economic conditions around the world.

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Name:T.priyanka Student id:20130220 Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.

Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs, which commonly includes food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care and education. Relative poverty is defined contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live. HEALTH : One third of deaths some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day are due to povertyrelated causes in total 270 million people, most of them women and children, have died as a result of poverty since 1990. Those living in poverty suffer from hunger disease. EDUCATION : Research has found that there is a high risk of educational under achievement for children who are from low-income housing circumstances. This is often a process that begins in school for some less children. Instruction in the educational system, as well as in most other countries, towards those students who come from more advantaged backgrounds. As a result, children in poverty are at a higher risk than advantaged children for retention in their grade, special placements during the school's hours and even not completing their high school education. ACCOMMODATION :

Poverty increases the risk of homeless ness who make up a third of the world's urban population, live in a poverty no better, if not worse, than rural people, who are the traditional focus of the poverty in the developing world, according to the search of government. earthquake : Economic impact of earthquake is rather different for the poor. In case of an earthquake such houses easily collapse, pulling the poor further down into the spiral of poverty. For households who have their dwelling as their main asset and shelter, the robustness of the construction is crucial. As a result of these earthquake leads to poverty. Low wages : As the cost of living rises, families need to earn more income to cover their basic needs. The poor" families with incomes of unsatisfied basic needs will leads to the poverty .

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