If it deteriorates, hunger and destitution hover at the doorstep. All I need is peace and health. Bad living and working conditions, together with material poverty, make a person highly vulnerable to becoming weak through sickness, or to permanent disability or death through illness and accident. Shortage of food and sickness not only cause pain, they weaken and devalue the asset. Poor people are more often sick, and sick for longer periods of time, and less able to afford treatment than the better off.
Illness can plunge a household into destitution.
Anguish and grief over watching loved ones die because of lack of money for health care is a silent crisis of poverty. Security Security is knowing what tomorrow will bring and how we will get food tomorrow. There is no control over anything, at any hour a gun could go off, especially at night. A poor woman in Brazil. Many people described security as peace of mind or confidence in survival.