HLTH102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, Coronary Artery Disease, Infant Mortality
22 Mar 2016
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Social change (ex. reduced ferility rates) happens before economic change (ex. increased income, gdp per capita etc. ) There is a misconcepion about asia and africa as coninents being worse of than the west (including europe) Child mortality rates are a good measure of the overall development of a country (ex. People sill have preconceived ideas about the overall state of the world, they are unaware of the exising data. Large families and short lives (developing countries), small families and longer lives (developed countries) Market economy and family planning decreases ferility rates (total births per woman) in developing countries ater 1960s. The concept of developing" countries is outdated. Concept of economic growth can be measure through family income, gdp per capita. Experts predict that by 2100 there will be 2 bilion children (ages 0-14) in the world. No need to disinguish between global health vs. internaional health.
