GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Health Care In Canada, Gini Coefficient, Gross Domestic Product

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

Document Summary

It is not so much about individual health though it is very closely related to population health: the relationship between health and poverty which can be measured through income, access to resources, comparative wealth, inadequate education. Mortality: refers to illness which leads to premature death. Morbidity: illness which do not lead to death but cause suffering, restriction and handicap. Gross domestic product: the average wealth of the total population (by estimating the total value of all materials, food, goods and services by a country in a year) Gini coefficient: income distribution of a nations residents (where 0=all the people who earn the same. World bank measures inequality using the inequality ratio, generally the higher the ratio, the more unequal the income distribution (canada is relatively good on this scale) Income inequality is growing fast 80 of the richest have together the same as 3. 5 billion people.