Health , Human Rights and Intervention

Question 1

GDP/GDP per capita

Answer 1

A measure of wealth and mean wealth through income. A high GDP per capita normally represents a high-earning population but GDP per capita could be skewed by rich minorities

Question 2

Life expectancy

Answer 2

A estimate of how long a person will live , made when there born. This is based on predicted advances , current services and the risk of disease

Question 3

Development

Answer 3

Development is the process of growth or changing from one condition to another , usually for the better

Question 4

Happy Planet Index

Answer 4

Links life expectancy, wellbeing and equality with the impact of ecological footprint. It does not feature an economic component like most measures do.

Question 5

KOF Index of Globalisation

Answer 5

Measures the strengths of links between countries. Uses economic , social and political criteria.

Question 6

World happiness index

Answer 6

This is a qualatitive measure of how the population feels regarding the trasnparency of the government. The data that is used measures alternative ideas such as social support, generosity and corruption.

Question 7

Trends for top 5 in HDI

Answer 7

• Large economies which advancing technology resulting in high GDP per capita
• Well structured cities and towns with good infastructure and trasnport as well as good supplies of water , electricty and food to households.
• free education systems

Question 8

Democracy

Answer 8

This is the system of government based belief that the population has equal rights on deciding how the country is run

Question 9

Capitalisim

Answer 9

Economic system where industry is owned by private businesses and are run to maximise profits as opposed to being run by the government. Within this system individuals earn wages based on there skills and hours worked. This can lead to inequality of wealth across the population

Question 10

Communisim

Answer 10

Prominent industries are state owned therefore leading to less competition between businesses. There is less focus on profit and more focus on regulated and fairer working conditions and pay

Question 11

Autoritarian

Answer 11

When decisions are made by the government or an individual alone.

Question 12

Factors affecting health within developing countries

Answer 12

• Poor healthcare
• poor access to food
• poor education
• climate ( warm climate can lead to more tropical diseases)
• population density

Question 13

WTO

Answer 13

Aims to reduce the trade barriers between diffrent countries by promoting free trade

Question 14

Health within the developed world

Answer 14

• access to clean water
• disposable income ( use to improving lifestyle and wellbeing0 - extending life expectancies
• good healthcare acess and specalists

Question 15

Health issues in developed countries

Answer 15

• Lifestyle choices
• Large cities are susceptible to infectious disease due to large population density and high net movement of people

Question 16

Development gap

Answer 16

The social and economic disparity between the wealthy and the poor

Question 17

Purchasing power parity (PPP)

Answer 17

A method of measuring the relative purchasing power of diffrent countries currincies over the same type of goods and services.

Question 18

Composite indicators

Answer 18

Often seen as better as use a mixture of both economic and social data.

Question 19

Securilisation

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Where most countries have a sperated government from religion

Question 20

what is unescos view

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seeks ‘to ensure that every child has access to quality education as fundemental human right and as a prerequisite for human development

Question 21

Deprevation

Answer 21

Describes a sitiuation of poor diet , poor housing and poor healthcare

Question 22

IMF

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• Promotes global and economic financial stability
• Encourages developing countries to accept FDI and open there economies to free trade
• Often criticised for promotiong a “western model’ for economic development and works in the favour of developed nations and TNC
• In 2018 Argentina accepted a $50bn loan from the IMF and there currency depreciated instanltey

Question 23

World bank

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• Lends money to the developing world to fund economic development and reduce poverty
• Often criticised for having policies that pioritize economic development over social development

Question 24

SAP

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Structual adjustment programmes - Made up from loans from the IMF and WB. Countries who recieve these loans often have to follow a specific route to development such as privitisation.

Question 25

HIPC schem

Answer 25

Heaviliy Indebted poor countries - aims to make sure no countries faces an unmanagable debt burden
- countries must reduce poverty over time and other criteria - if acchieved they may have there debt cleared
- Chad acchieved this in 2015
- neo - colnial ?

Question 26

MDG

Answer 26

Millenium development goals
- MAIN GOAL to reduce the development gap between the richest and the poorest
- Erradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Acchieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases
- Ensure enviromental sustainability
- Global partnership for development

Question 27

SDG

Answer 27

Sustainable development goals
Three focus areas
- Sustaonable development
- Democratic governance and peacebuilding
- Climate and disaster resiliance

Question 28

Geopolitical intervention

Answer 28

Exercise of a country’s power to influence events outside it’s border