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Show - 18 Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, December 9, 1983 UNICEF Says 15 Millio n Children Die Needlessly UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -fifteen million children equivalent to the entire U.S. under-fiv- e were killed in the population world's poor countries in the past 12 months by disease that could be cured by four simple low-cotechniques, the head of the U.N. Children's Fund said. In his annual "State of the ' st World's Children" published Thursday, James Grant, the agency's American executive dbreakt- irector, said medical hroughs that might save at least half the children that would otherwise die each year in developing countries would remain "on the shelf" unless accompanied by social and political breakthroughs. "In the last year alone the 15 million who have died in the developing world is the equivalent of the entire under-fiv- e population of the United States of America," " he said. "Coming together at this time, "On a European scale, it is as if these breakthroughs in both sci- the combined under-fiv- e ence and social organize ition could populations of Britain, France, Italy, soon be helping to save I ;he lives of Spain and the Federal Republic of half the 40,000 young ch ildren who (West) Germany had been wiped now die every day," Grj int said. out in a year." "They could also pr event sev- Grant said for every child who eral million children a year from died "another has been left blind becoming mentally or physically or deaf or crippled or retarded." . disabled." The biggest child killer is dehyGrant said some pe ople think dration, caused by ordinary diarthat because of world, wide eco-rhea, which can be prevented or nomic woes the 1980s seems an treated with a simple mixture of "unlikely time to be ta' Iking about a great leap forward for chil- salt, sugar and water. The three other methods UNI-CE- F drea" said could bring about a "Growth monitoring, oral rehy- "children's revolution" are dration therapy, the pr emotion of growth monitoring with a 10 cent breastfeeding and exr ended im- chart to help parents make better m;mization are 'the U :echniques use of food, more breastfeeding, which make it affordal He even in and immunization against the the midst of recession,' ' he said. "big-six- " diseases of measles, "To wait for recessi on to step aside and allow econom ic develop- whooping cough, tetanus, dipth-erituberculosis and polio. ment to resume its slow walk -- life-savi- a, toward social improvement ii tn accept that tens of thousands of children will continue to die each day and that millions more will live on in hunger and a state of affairs which can and does undermine the very process of economic development itself." Grant said the vast majority of child illnesses and deaths in the Third World do not have "exotic The UNICEF chief said that although the causes of most of the deaths of millions of children in the developing world are "shamefully simple and ordinary, they are clouded in misconceptions which obscure both the problem and its potential solutions. The greatest misconception, cures. of them die in "Intestinal parasites can cause malnutrition. Changing from breastmilk to commercial substitutes can cause malnutrition. Not knowing how and when to begin weaning can cause malnutrition. the Baha'fFaith the world... causes requiring sophisticated "Five million Grant said, was that malnutrition was caused only by lack of food. the stupor of dehydration caused by simple diarrhea," he said. "More than 3 million die with the high fevers of pneumuiia Two million died marked by the rash of mea- sles. A million and a half die racked by the spasms of whooping cough. Another million die with the convulsions of tetanus. And for every child who dies, many more live on in hunger and Hniting Wt kU Conuct: be P.O. Box 61 Nephi, UT 84648 756-995- 5 Free Care No Panacea SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI) Access to free health care does not inspire people to change habits such as smoking and poor diet associated with heart disease and many types of cancer, a $78 million federally financed study says. The study, conducted by the Rand Corp. think tank, found that generous health insurance benefits involving several visits to a physician each year had "no impact on smoking, weight or cholesterol levels." six-ye- Free medical care leads to small improvements in the vision of nearsighted people and to slightly lower blood pressure in poor people, the study noted. The study was designed to test the health and economic effects of different kinds of national health insurance. Researchers in the study, which ran from 1974 through 1982, found that nearsighted people on the free care plan had slightly better corrected vision at the end of the experiment than did people on g plans. But, the study noted, free care for all adults is not a way to reduce death rates. Other programs, such as testing for high blood pressure, might save as many lives at less cost, the study cost-sharin- cost-efficie- nt said. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which also carried an editorial by the editor, Dr. Arnold Relman, cautioning against "hasty and of reductions - insurance benefits." Relman termed the study a "valuable and massive undertaking" from which much useful information will emerge, but cautioned against quickly replacing various medical care programs with programs in which patients share the costs. 0.0 o o 9 & $rQ F o O n 0 o O O o o 0 o 0 O 0 0 c o o uO 0 o o o vq o A rrp f 0 n O 0 0 o o y While short-tersavings could g be achieved by putting programs into effect, he said, "quite possibly the ultimate cost would be an increase in death, disease and and disability." The report was based on information obtained from 3,958 adults randomly assigned to 14 different insurance plans. "It is not for Rand to say whether free care is good or bad," Dr. Joseph Newhouse, head of m cost-sharin- Rand's economics department, "Our job is to determine said. what the effects are so that others the public and the policymakers can make informed decisions about the wisest course to follow." ' for CHRISTMAS STORIES Diesel Special Here is the season when we really shine! 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