1. Spatial Inequality Flashcards
What is income inequality?
A significant gap between the bottom and top income earners of Australia. For example, the top 20% of Australian’s earn 70% more income than the remaining 80% of Australian citizens.
What is spatial inequality?
Differences in access to valued resources such as housing, income, employment, education and health.
What are the 5 main types of spatial inequality?
- Income inequality.
- Transport inequality.
- Health inequality.
- Education inequality.
- Housing inequality.
What is income inequality?
The inability to access fair-paying jobs on the basis of location.
What is transport inequality?
Not being able to catch a from of public transport in a specific region.
What is health inequality.
Being unable to access quality health care services within a local area.
What is education inequality?
The provision of low-quality or inability to access quality education.
What is housing inequality?
Residents living in low-quality or small sized houses due to no better ones being constructed.
What is the minimum wage and how is it abused?
The minimum wage is the legal minimum a person can be paid.
Minimum wage rates are exploited by various employers, who hire people in foreign countries and transfer them to places where they know they will be underpaid. It was estimated that 80% of online job advertisements in Koran, Chinese and Spanish publications paid below award rates.
How great is the difference between the top and bottom 20% of income earners?
The difference between the top and bottom income earners will continue to grow. It was estimated that within the past two decades, the difference between the top and bottom income earners differs by $47,000
What effects can health inequality have on Australians?
- Lower life expectancy.
- Greater death rates.
- Lower health and behavioural knowledge.
What is health inequality closely linked with?
Health inequality can affect:
- Education levels.
- Occupations.
- Incomes.
- Employment rates.
- Greater disability rates.
What are the causes of health inequalities?
- Unequal access to necessities in health such as housing, adequate income, healthy food, opportunities for recreation and access to health services.
What are food deserts?
- ‘Food desert’ is a term used to describe a place where there is inadequate access to shops that sell healthy food and instead inhabit an area with many shops that sell unhealthy food.
What are the requirements for food deserts?
A food desert can be qualified as a place that is:
- More than 1,600 metres from a grocery store.
- Less than 1,600 metres from an unhealthy-food store.
