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DEVELOPMENT REPORT

January 14, 2002: Economics and Health


By Jill Moss 1



This is the VOA Special English Development Report.


The World Health Organization has released a report about how disease weakens the economies of poor
countries. For years, people believed that good health is a direct result of strong economic development.
However, this study suggests the opposite is true. It says that strong economic development is an important result
of improved health.


An international committee of economists 2 and experts in public health and policy carried out study. It is based on
almost ninety investigations 3 in countries around the world. Some people say the study is the most complete
examination to link investments in health care to economic growth.


The study calls for a large increase in foreign aid for health care services in developing countries. In the world’s
richest countries, total spending for health care for each person is almost two-thousand dollars a year. However,
in the world’s poorest nations, spending on health care for each person is only thirteen dollars a year.


The W-H-O says this amount should be increased to thirty-eight dollars a year for each person by Two-
Thousand -Fifteen. The money would help poor nations provide treatment for diseases. It would also provide
babies with important health care early in life.


Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, led the study. He says about eight-million
lives could be saved each year if the richest nations increased spending on health care in developing countries. In
addition, Mister Sachs says more than fifty of the world’s poorest countries would have a chance to improve the


living and economic conditions for their people.


The study links political crises in developing countries to high death rates among newborn babies. The report also
provides new information about how AIDS, tuberculosis 4 and malaria 5 affect economic growth in developing
countries. The researchers suggest eight-thousand-million dollars be provided each year to help fight these
diseases.


The W-H-O plans to send the study to many officials around the world. They include heads of state, ministers of
finance, health and trade, members of national parliaments and non-governmental organizations. It says the report
is a valuable guide for future international health programs, policies and financing.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.



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n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查,但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
n.结核病,肺结核
  • People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
  • Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
n.疟疾
  • He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
  • Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
学英语单词
acinotubular gland
adiabatic elimination
allelopathically
Allium xichuanense
Anatolia
aneogmena compressa
atony of colon
Banbridge
Bashkirtseff
Beagle, Canal
billstickers
Blackwater State
brush application
burqa
Castrogonzalo
check right
chemical engine hose
cineangiography
cisoid
colonialness
coloration of cloth
colur
combination drop-down edit
composite ceramic mould
concrete invariant
conservation of mechanical energy
deception strategy
dilution of equity
disanalogal
dog-gone
double sided board
double-direction thrust bearing
electric boiling plate
file find
first earl of chathams
flattened jaw
gaug
goetical
Goryachegorsk
green manure crop
gypsum dehydration
half integral
himalayan cedar ?
hole in soaking pit
holle
inflameable
jot down
labelless
laser scribing
lines of march
Loano
lonicera kungeana hao
lowbie
methoxynaphthalene
Michael Joe Jackson
milled clay
morning orderbook
mrem
mycena polygramma
naleds
nonalignment diagram
nonrecycler
normophosphatemia
Nuestra Seňora, B.de
pinnaspis shirozui
planater
polyadenylate
production evaluation test
protection deadlock
psoraleas
pyelocystanastomosis
radiation level
rapidly
ratio of peripheral velocity difference
retroengine
rhodium alloy
rocker-shaft
roll vibration
saxorum
sillyish
single inductor
solution ceramics
space allotment
spillover radiation
spit blood
Stanislaus County
starch pudding
suffocative convulsion
system infector
tetraline
theoretical scattered dose
tobacco rattle virus
tray accumulator
tree of Jesse
triindenyl samarium
truck sterilization room
tung chiao fang
ultra-radicals
unprocured
unquenching
variable-point representation system
volume of ideal