LEC 4: Class Presentations

Question 1

Ghana: Health Challenges

Answer 1

• Malaria #1 leading cause of death
• Portable/ good drinking water
• 12/27 million people have health care coverage

Question 2

Ghana: Social Challenges

Answer 2

• Loss of native language
• Lack of social support for people with disabilities
• Unclear definitions on abuse and neglect

Question 3

Ghana: Globolization

Answer 3

• Workers do not benefit form cocoa production due to not being in market
• Trickle down effect is not applicable
• Colonization lead to economic exploitation, racial injustices, exploitation of natural resources, and social political exclusion

Question 4

Honduras: Healthcare Challenges

Answer 4

• Don’t have affordable health care
• Mall nutrition
• Malaria, especially in children
• No safe access to drinking water

Question 5

Honduras: Social Challenges

Answer 5

• 60% of population lives in poverty
• One of the highest murder rates in the world
• Economic inequality gaps is highest in Latin America

Question 6

Honduras: Globalization

Answer 6

• Globalization helps
• Economy depends heavily on trades
• Brings money into the economy

*It was helping but is not the case anymore

Question 7

Peru: Healthcare Challenges

Answer 7

• Influenza and pneumonia
• HIV/ Aids
• 1.2 physicians for every 1000 people

Question 8

Peru: Social Challenges

Answer 8

• 50% of population live in poverty
• Child labor
• Gini scale is 0.44
• Discriminatory power

Question 9

Peru: Globalization

Answer 9

• Helped reduce poverty
• Creates employment; majority of the poor depend in agriculture/ farming
• Countries open to international rad

Question 10

Cote D’Iavoire: Healthcare Challenges

Answer 10

• Prevalence of HIV/ Aids
• Reproductive health/ family planning issues
• Tropical disease such as ebola and malaria
• Malnutrition
• Low-life expectancy

Question 11

Cote D’Ivoire: Social Challenges

Answer 11

• Conflict with religious divide
• Leading varying political ideas
• Education, literacy and school drop pit
• Poverty and employment
• Child labour

Question 12

Cote D’Ivoire: Globalization

Answer 12

• Does not help due too colonization lead to economic and political divide
• Does not help because natural resources are obtained by child labour

Question 13

Dominican Republic: Healthcare Challenges

Answer 13

• Disease, stroke, road injuries, and HIV/Aids
• Unsafe water
• Maternal and infant mortality
• 42% if deaths related to communicable disease
• 42% of death not related to communicable disease
• 16% of death related to injuries

Question 14

Dominican Republic: Social Challenges

Answer 14

• Sex tourism/ trafficking
• Most women working in factories
• Environmental degradation
• Discrimination agains women
• Inequalities such as distribution wealth and poor education

Question 15

Dominican Republic: Globalization

Answer 15

• Helps create jobs
• Helps economically

Positively influenced the establishment of their economy but as global markets expand, competition increases thereby decreasing profits for the country