Quality of Life Flashcards
What is Quality of Life?
The standard or health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or group.
What are Economic issues?
Complex problems that involve money, wealth, employment, or peoples access to things they need or want in life.
What are Social issues?
Complex problems involving education, health, equality, population, and other factors that influence peoples opportunities in society.
What are Political issues?
complex problems involving how people make decisions in groups and can involve government, laws, human rights, and safety.
What are Environmental issues?
Complex problems that involve peoples interactions with the natural world, including land use, water use, energy, and climate.
What is Wealth?
Refers to the amount of money and possessions an individual accumulates over the course of their life.
What is Income?
Refers the the amount of money received or earned on a continuous basis as a result of work or investments.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
Uses life expectancy, access to education, and GDP per capita to determine how well off people are in a country or region. Higher value means higher quality of life. 1.000 is highest.
What is life expectancy?
The average age people can expect to live in a specific country or region. Related to health outcomes.
What is GDP per capita?
The total value of goods and services produced in a country in one year divided by the population. Shows average wealth production per person.
What are MEDCs?
More economically developed countries. Usually have stronger economies, are wealthier, and have a higher quality of life.
What are LEDCs?
Less economically developed countries. Usually have weaker economies, are less wealthy and have a lower quality of life.
What is the North/South divide?
MEDC tend to be in northern regions, LEDC tend to be in southern.
What is economic development?
A region’s material wealth and trade.
What is social development?
The level of education, healthcare, life expectancy, and infant mortality in a society.
What is political development?
The type of government in a region, the level of corruption, the effectiveness of the electoral system, and the rule of law.
What is the Gini Index?
A measure of the distribution of income in a country. used to measure the amount of income inequality. The higher it is, the worse it is.
social indicators
life expectancy, literacy rates, poverty rates, health
political indicators
human rights, government stability
economic indicators
GDP, unemployment, inflation, income inequality
