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USA vs UK spending on healthcare

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USA spend double

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USA healthcare reform

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$940 billion to secure another 32 million with health insurance

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UK healthcare reform

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£80 billion transferred to GPS to save £20 billion by 2014

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Prevalence rate of aids and distribution

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39m living with aids 2/3 in sub-Saharan Africa, lowering LE in 38 countries

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Show aids impacts on education

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900000 students lose their teachers a year

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Thailand success story

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Hiv fell by 90% from 91-03

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CHD big disease?

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Accounts for 30% of all deaths

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Distribution of CHD

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1.2m die a years in Africa compared to 4 times this in Europe

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Economic impact of CHD in UK

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£7bn to healthcare £3bn lost through earnings a year

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Increase in obesity in UK

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6%-17% in men from 1980-to 98

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Economic impact of obesity in UK

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£3.6bn a year to NHS

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Undernourishment how many

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1/6 of earth- one dies every 3.6 seconds

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UK VS UGANDA private spending on healthcare

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16.1 % v 78.3%

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14
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Uganda access to public healthcare

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51%

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15
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UK vs Uganda le

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79 v 55

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16
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How many smoke how often and who

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10 million smoked a minute

1/1.3bn are men

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17
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Distribution of female smokers

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HIC-22%

MIC, LIC- 9%

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18
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Tobacco companies economic distribution

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British American tobacco pay £26billion tax a year

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Pharmaceutical company

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GlaxoSmithKline sell to 179 countries making it the third largest in the

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20
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North and south divide health

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2.5 years longer LE in very south than very north

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21
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Wealth difference north and south

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North east-£18000

South east- £27000

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Wealth linked to health?

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Eating your 5 a day
Professional and management-35%
Routine employees-21%

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23
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Luton people are fat?

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23% of year six obese

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24
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Luton people Poor?

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12000 kids living in poverty

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Economic impacts on Cambria flooding
£100million
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Social impacts of Cambria flooding
1300 lost homes
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Responses to Cambria flooding
RAF saved 200 people on helicopters and boats
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How much rain in Philippines Sept/09
340mm in 6 hours
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Economic impact of Philippines
$100million dollars -3% rice farms ruined
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Social impact of Philippines
250 killed, 60000 people lost their homes
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sahel growing
2-5km south a year
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Sahel population and doubling time
260m - 20 years
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Sahel population growth vs food production growth
Pop-3% food-2%
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Eden project
1 million trees
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Urban expansion in mojave
Triple in 20 years in cities
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Conservation in mojave
$93m to save Mojave tortoise
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Population and its density of uganda
33.4 million, half the density of Britain
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Uganda growing fast?
2nd fastest growing population
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Uganda workforce and $
87% rural leading to a GDP of just $1300
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Education in uganda
4/16 universities are funded by government so for every 1 place in uni there are 30000 kids
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Girls in Ugandan education and consequences
Just 17% continue past 13, leading to a FR of 6.7
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G8 debt cancellation
Kids in primary education was 62%-2000 93%-2009
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Changes in FR in uk
2.4 in 1965 dropped below 2.1 in the 70s, now 1.7
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Is the uk old
Yes 40.5 median age
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Uk- ageing population?
16% over 65 now | 25% by 2040
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Changes in dependency ratio
22 people when first introduced per retired person | In 2024 there will be less than 3
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Positives of old people
Over 50s buy 80% of luxury cars and cruises
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Immigration good?
60% less likely to have benefits
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What did the on child policy do
Prevented 400million births
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Living longer in china?
50 in 1965 | 75 now
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China ageing population?
2050 25% will be over 65
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Gender imbalance in china?
117:100 - 35 million single men of marriage age single by 2020
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Education in china
2% of people over 25 have uni qualification compared to 25% in most HIC Spend a 1/3 of UK GDP on education
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Australia growing fast?
4.6 faster than UK 40 year doubling time | Half immigrants
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Why is Australia ageing
84 - 1st pregnancy at 27 | 06- 30
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Snowy mountain scheme
60 % of food and wine uses their water from dams made in the 50s
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Canary wharf
Average wage in the main building in over 100000, despite being jist 3km from canning town
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Employment in canning town
38% work full time
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Education in canning town
43% of adults have no qualifications
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Catch project
96- 28% got 5 or more Cs and gcse | 07- 56%
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Ethnicity of Richmond upon Thames
91% white compared to 71.2% of London
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Education in Richmond upon Thames
25% of kids attend private secondary schools
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Who is more likely to live in Richmond upon Thames
New urban Colonists and cultural leaders are more than 21 times more likely to live her than anywhere else in the UK
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Problems with Richmond upon Thames
12% of property is thought of as affordable for the majority of the UK
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Commuting to London?
650000 a day from home counties
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Population of Chelmsford
71- 58000 | 14-120000
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Kids leaving cornwall
Half of all 16-18 year olds leave
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Wealth of Cornwall and why
Poorest county in England and wales due to 25% directly employed in tourism
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Problem with tourism in cornwall
1/3 of profits leave Cornwall
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Housing issue in cornwall
12% social housing compared to 23% of national average
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Remoteness of cornwall
29% of rural settlements don't have a bus service

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