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> Medicine hasn't fundamentally changed our quality of life. Maybe not for you, but I think many current and former developing countries would strongly disagre
by dsuth 13y ago
> Medicine hasn't fundamentally changed our quality of life.
Maybe not for you, but I think many current and former developing countries would strongly disagree. Take a look at this: http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/#section=home http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/#section=home
- raywu 13y agoThanks for sharing the link. Very cool
- YZF 13y agoFor sure there have been a lot of changes but my intuition says progress over the last 30 years wasn't so great. I'm pretty sure the spread and severity of Malaria has grown. HIV. Air pollution in China. Let's look at the link: - It looks at 50 years, not 30 years. - Very anecdotal. With regard to Mexico I'm not sure if it's better off than it was 30 years ago. What about the drug wars? - Seems to equate more money with better outcome. High-rises and modern bridges = progress. - "more than one billion people in extreme poverty," - today - "Income per person has in fact risen in sub-Saharan Africa over that time, and quite a bit in a few countries", inflation adjusted? Doesn't look like it is. I was just looking at Wikipedia's Health in Kenya article: "The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Kenya is 530, yet has been shown to be as high as 1000 in the North Eastern Province, for example.[5]This is compared with 413.4 in 2008 and 452.3 in 1990" All that said, the world is hopefully moving towards a more stable population and a larger middle class (percentage wise) but I would need to see a lot more data before being able to say a lot more for sure about changes over the last 30 years.