Health and Economic Development.

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Health and economy both are interlinked terms as downfall in economy causes poverty and people are not able to avail the basic facilities like food and medication. Subsequently, people in developing countries prefer self-medication and consulting unqualified doctors, also called "Hakeems" in local language, because they do not have enough resources to concern a professional doctor. It either causes an adverse effect on their health or even cause death in swear cases. "Unintentional poisonings kill 355 000 people throughout the year. In developing countries - where two thirds of these deaths occur - such poisonings are strongly associated with excessive exposure to, and inappropriate use of, toxic chemicals and pesticides present in occupational and/or domestic environments(1,2)."
Moreover; most of the people in developing countries have to face starvation and malnutrition, because either people do not have food resources due to poor financial statement or they do not know that what to eat for proper growth and to resist against several mineral and nutrient deficiencies. "815 million people - one in nine(of the total world population) - still go to bed on an empty stomach each night. Even more - one in three - suffer from some form of malnutrition(3)."

While it is being wasted cruelly in some parts of the world. " Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year - approximately 1.3 billion tonnes - gets lost or wasted(4)."
These problems can be tackled if government provide proper health facilities to rural areas and take austere measures to ensure that only a licensed pharmacist must sell drugs. Providing awareness to people would  also be effective to reduce such type of death causing practices, which would eventually decrease death rates and people would then be able to contribute actively towards the economy of that particular country.

Sources:
1. Goldman, L, Tran, N. Toxics and poverty: the impact of toxic substances on the poor in developing countries. Washington, DC, The World Bank, 2002
2. FAO/UNEP/WHO. Childhood pesticide poisoning: information for advocacy and action. Geneva, United Nations Environment Programme, 2004.
3. http://www1.wfp.org/zero-hunger
4. http://www.fao.org/save-food/resources/keyfindings/en/

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