Health

Question 1

The physical quality of life index measures health and education - infant mortality, literacy, life expectancy

Answer 1

views development as a social issue rather than an economic issue

Question 2

Poverty and the role of MEDC’s impact on health

Answer 2

• bad diet, not enough doctors, no education to know how to prevent disease
• prices for live saving drugs may be too high
• western products used badly e.g powdered baby milk made with dirty water = infections
• TNCs care little for environment and safety e.g gas leaks etc

Modernisation: western health care is superior
Dependency theory: colonialism brought european disease to africa, asia etc