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Sustainable development: Interventions to alleviate poverty for health

Abstract:

Poverty and health maintain a negative correlation that is stimulated through interventions, since by applying strategies to reduce poverty conditions such as vulnerability, lack of opportunities, environmental risk factors, or scarcity of resources, it is achieved consequently increase health, well-being, nutrition, healthy environment and life expectancy, all components of health. Similarly, health interventions are able to undermine poverty indicators. The importance of the interventions lies in the fact that without them, the balance will tilt towards the most feasible trend: damage to health and increased severity. Currently, interventions are needed that lead to the eradication and control of a set of 20 diseases highlighted by the WHO, several of them infectious and tropical, which affect especially the poorest communities. Since the conception in 2015 of the 17 SDGs, 7 of these objectives allow focusing the necessary interventions in each dimension of poverty, and that in turn improve health, from the perspective of sustainable development. Here we present multiple initiatives by citizen, private or multisectoral actors, aimed at reversing multidimensional poverty, many of which have a high potential for impact in the Ecuadorian nation.