Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Structural Adjustment, Child Mortality, Economic Globalization

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Lecture 19 - global health inequalities and structural. Morbidity related to different kinds of diseases; mortality related to different kinds of countries: developing countries still have higher rates of infectious disease than developed ones. Even in low income countries there are very distinct gradients in the income quintiles when we look at child mortality. Those in highest quintiles have the lowest child mortality. 184 deaths per 1000 live births in 1960 (global average: this decreased to 72 by 2006. Child mortality = death before the age of five: compared to infant mortality (death before the age of one) There are drastic differences between countries with higher and lower national incomes (eg, Characterized by: profound low income, high popn density, high fertility, wide income gaps, high morbidity/mortality. Not a standard universal rule!: example: cuba (low income country w life expectancy rates that are the same as the us)