2.3 Poverty, Health And Wellbeing Flashcards
What is meant by human rights?
Everyone’s right to a standard of living adequate for their health and wellbeing
What’s meant by adequate?
Enough
Satisfactory
What are the human rights main requirements?
Food and water
Clothing
Housing
Medical care
What is corporate social responsibility?
aka CSR
Self regulatory scheme, to optimise the level of social responsibility and sustainability
Gives companies the framework
Who is corporate social responsibility in partnership with?
WWF, wildlife world fund
What’s an example of CSR?
Lego
Pledging to use 100% renewable energy
What are some health products Improving social problems?
Robotic surgery
Telehealth
Artificial organs
Prosthetic limbs
Medical equipment
3D printing
What are artificial organs?
Man made devices that replace organ functions
NOT a transplant
Artificial organ examples:
Artifical heart -> heart
Pacemaker -> natural pacemaker (sinus mode) in right atrium
What is robotic surgery?
Robots completing a surgery in place of a surgeon
Why is robotic surgery used?
- complex surgeries at high precision
- flexible arms in comparison
- leaves no scarring
- reduced recovery time
What is telehealth?
A system faciliting data of patients
What’s an example of telehealth?
Getting remainders of appointments
What does medical equipment improve?
It’s improves the ability to investigate patients health state
What’s an example of medical equipment?
MRI
gives the view of internal organs
3D printing examples:
- synthetic skin
- polymer bones for damage
- medical equipment
How does 3D printing medical equipment improve social problems?
Print equipment in poorer countries
- like umbilical cord clamps
How has prosthetic limbs improved?
It’s more sophisticated
- Because of new materials and technology
Example of prosthetic limbs improvement:
Lighter motor
What’s meant migration?
Leaving your country because of poverty and conflict
How can the requirement of food be helped?
Solar cookers
Hotter climates like Burkina Faso have the best solar energy climate
What are the negative of solar cookers?
Expensive initially
Positives of solar cookers?
Reliable source
Renewable energy
Long term solution
How can requirement of water be helped?
- SunDwater
Water distillation (filtering) equipment
Converts contaminated and salty water to drinkable and safe
Powered by solar energy
How can the requirement of clothing be helped?
Donating so they can be reused
Why is donating clothes encouraged?
Provides humanitarian aid
Improves sustainability- won’t end up in landfill
What product did Angela lina create to improve someone’s human rights?
The adiff
A Cape that turns into a tent
How can the requirement of housing be helped?
Flat pack furniture by ikea foundation designs
What are the features of the ikea foundations design shelter?
Can be made without tools
Sleeps 5
Insulated
Has solar panels, fueling lights and plugs for phones etc.
Where has the ikea shelter been used?
Iraq and Ethiopia
How can the requirement of medical care be helped?
Adapted shipping containers containing mobile hospitals and maternity units and medicines
Why are adapted shipping containers used?
Easily transportable
Uses solar energy
Where have adapted shipping containers been used?
Syria
What is fair trade?
A fair minimum price set for products
Making them more expensive so producers can be paid more
Why was fair-trade set up?
Producers were being exploited
What does fair pay enable?
Improved quality of life
More money for themselves and their future
An example of fair trade:
Cocoa bean farmers in Ghana
Can now pay school fees
How do you know a product is fairtrade?
The fairtrade logo
