Role of Nurses in Underdeveloped Countries

Running Head: Nursing and Healthcare
Nursing and Healthcare
Essay
System04104
12/21/2018

Nursing and Healthcare
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Role of Nurses in Underdeveloped Countries
Providing proper healthcare and nursing service in underdeveloped countries is a
challenge for the WHO. Poverty, illiteracy, lack of health facilities and resources, ignorance,
and a bad leadership affect the health of people and produce a wide range of diseases such as
Tuberculosis, Malnutrition, Malaria, and some acute lower-respiratory infections. Another
challenge is the improper execution of health-related programs that even failed to spread
awareness among these people. Although one of the major challenges is poverty that causes
an unhygienic environment for people and that causes several diseases. For more than 1
billion people worldwide are living less than US$1 per day, and that causes the modern
medicine and healthcare facilities out of their reach (Akay & Tamura, 2015). Some African
countries such as Nigeria, Uganda, etc., and some Asian countries such as Bangladesh,
Pakistan, and Nepal etc. are the good examples of such type of countries where people are
struggling and fighting with some avoidable diseases because of their poverty, lack of
resources, and illiteracy of people about the causes of diseases (Parkash, Younis, & Ward,
2015).
Two Major Challenges
The major problems in providing healthcare services in underdeveloped countries are
poverty and lack of healthcare facilities and resources. People are suffering from lack of
resources and even they do not have any idea about any disease as well. A large number of
research papers explains that good health is only possible if the government formulate
properly execute their poverty reduction programs and provide them essential healthcare
facilities and resources. Poverty not only affects the health of people rather it also affects the
societies and economies as well. Poverty is the root cause of all health problems and diseases
(Strasser, 2010). The inequality among people in underdeveloped countries is a result of the
failure of healthcare services to reach the poor. Poverty disabled the government to launch
proper healthcare programs in those areas where people are suffering from polio,
tuberculosis, and malaria etc. (So, Cummings, de Calvo, Day, Houlahan, Nevidjon, & Were,
2016). Poverty is the major cause of illiteracy of people and lack of awareness about the
disease that can easily be avoided with sanitation and cleanliness programs. Thus, if the
underdeveloped countries want to remove these disease they should work on avoiding