UNIT 5: Health
China's one child programme
- Communist party shapes family life
- one kid per family
-reward system and penalties
Neo-Malthusian perspective
population growth is placing unsustainable demands with ou)r planets finite resources
Souther perspective on population growth
- population growth is an issue stirred up by the developed world to keep LDC's in their underdeveloped condition
Development perspective (population growth)
- need to control population growth
- need for sexual health care access
- resources to family planning contraception
Technological and market perspective (population growth)
- As long as population growth is not too fast it can stimulate innovation
- reliying on market mechanism
Ebola epidemic west africa
- Disease spread easily due to poor and weak health systems
- lacked rapid decision making
- didn't keep the government informed sufficiently enough
Global shortage of health workers
-poor remuneration and working conditions
-fragile states and personal security concern make health workers to migrate
-not sufficient tutors to train health professionals
- workers go to northern countries to get higher salaries
HIV/ AIDS in South Africa
- High rates explained by high migration and trade
- small awareness about prevention in with the government
- questioned the usefulness of western medecine
issues with education in developing societies (4)
- Financial constraints
- Higher education cannot be achieved due to illiteracy
- not enough education leads to child labour
- Corruption in education
EFA
World Declaration on Education For All