Development and Health

Dr Haroon AwanCEO

Avicenna Consulting

The world we live in

1.1 Billion people lack access to safe drinking water; 2.6 Billion lack access to basic sanitation

The world we live in77 Million children are out of school – 33% of these are children with disabilities

The world we live in

MDGs

The Big 5

Chronic DiseasesCardiovascular disease, mainly heart disease, stroke

Cancer

Chronic respiratory diseases

Diabetes

Chronic Diseases

Chronic Poverty

Health, Wealth and Development

Three new indices• Inequality Adjusted HDI

• Gender Inequality Index

• Multidimensional Poverty Index

Mahboob ul Haq Amartya Sen

Lack of sustainability is arguably the greatest challenge to human development

The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, HDRO-UNDP – November 2010

Worsening of key measures of sustainability, 1970-2006/8

Unfree

Capability Deprivation

? Choice

More MPI poor than income poor

The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, HDRO-UNDP – November 2010

Niger

Ethiopia

Rwanda

Tanzania

Mauritania

India

Cambodia

Morocco

Guatemala

China

Sri Lanka

Uzbekistan

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

$1.25 a day poorMPI headcounts

Percentage of population considered poor

Percentage of people living in poverty - MPI and income poverty, selected countries

Security

Identify Opportunities

Empowerment

Development is abou

t Peop

le

Change

Poverty Reduction

Development in ‘EYE’

Eye in ‘DEVELOPMENT’

Development

challenges –

next decade

Eye Heal

th Policy

Think

Tank

Re-thinking eye health

paradigms

Looking Ahead

MDGs Renewal

? NCDs

? NTDs

? INCLUSION

?Visual Impairment

? Water and Sanitation

Mahboob ul Haq – Pakistan’s Human Development Expert often quoted George Bernard Shaw

‘You see things that are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?’

Why not!