Modern Warfare's Silver Lining
War may indeed be hell, but hell, apparently, isn't all that bad for your health. According to a new study, during most armed conflicts since the 1970s, mortality rates have actually declined. That's not to say that war, in and of itself, leads to longer life spans. Instead, a major reason for the drop is that conflict has become an impetus for international humanitarian groups to ramp up their efforts in poor countries, and they've learned to work public-health miracles in a short amount of time.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for instance, just twenty percent of children were vaccinated for measles in 1997, at the start of a decade-long civil war. But by 2007 that figure was eighty percent. The metrics on other health initiatives, from treating malnutrition to distributing bed nets, tell a similar story.
"It's never any fun living in a refugee camp," says Andrew Mack, a professor at Simon Fraser University and the study's lead author. "But the mortality rates are better in many of those camps than they were before the war." That's no reason to celebrate warfare. But it does suggest that its damage has become much cheaper.
SHERIDAN. Barrett. Modern warfare's silver lining. Newsweek, New York, Feb. 1, 2010. p. 7.
De acordo com as informações contidas no texto, é correto afirmar (mais de uma opção é possível) que
a) o sério problema de desnutrição no Congo agravou-se bastante durante o período de guerra.
b) os índices de mortalidade, nas últimas décadas, têm diminuído na maior parte dos conflitos armados.
c) a guerra civil na República Democrática do Congo, iniciada no final do século passado, ainda continua até os dias atuais.
d) graças aos esforços de grupos humanitários, houve uma melhora considerável na saúde pública dos países pobres em guerra.
e) o percentual de crianças vacinadas con ra sarampo, na epública De ocrâ ica ao Congo, cresceu muito em um período de dez anos.
f) o estudo mencionado no texto sugere que a maior razão para o fim dos conflitos armados é a falta de alimentos, de médicos e de enfermeiros nos campos de refugiados.
GABARITO
Alternativas D e E.
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