Health , Human Rights and Intervention Flashcards
GDP/GDP per capita
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
Life expectancy
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
Development
Development is the process of growth or changing from one condition to another , usually for the better
Happy Planet Index
Links life expectancy, wellbeing and equality with the impact of ecological footprint. It does not feature an economic component like most measures do.
KOF Index of Globalisation
Measures the strengths of links between countries. Uses economic , social and political criteria.
World happiness index
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.
Trends for top 5 in HDI
- 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
Democracy
This is the system of government based belief that the population has equal rights on deciding how the country is run
Capitalisim
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
Communisim
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
Autoritarian
When decisions are made by the government or an individual alone.
Factors affecting health within developing countries
- Poor healthcare
- poor access to food
- poor education
- climate ( warm climate can lead to more tropical diseases)
- population density
WTO
Aims to reduce the trade barriers between diffrent countries by promoting free trade
Health within the developed world
- access to clean water
- disposable income ( use to improving lifestyle and wellbeing0 - extending life expectancies
- good healthcare acess and specalists
Health issues in developed countries
- Lifestyle choices
- Large cities are susceptible to infectious disease due to large population density and high net movement of people
Development gap
The social and economic disparity between the wealthy and the poor
Purchasing power parity (PPP)
A method of measuring the relative purchasing power of diffrent countries currincies over the same type of goods and services.
Composite indicators
Often seen as better as use a mixture of both economic and social data.
Securilisation
Where most countries have a sperated government from religion
what is unescos view
seeks ‘to ensure that every child has access to quality education as fundemental human right and as a prerequisite for human development
Deprevation
Describes a sitiuation of poor diet , poor housing and poor healthcare
IMF
- 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
World bank
- 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
SAP
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.
