Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: International Monetary Fund, Global Health, Child Mortality

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

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Key concepts: global health inequalities, child mortality, globalization, neoliberalism, international monetary fund, world bank, structural adjustment programs, nafta"s chapter 11, gats, who commission on the sdh. Announcement: final exam- sarurday dec 6, 9am, thames hall gym, with 40% of nal grade, cumulative, all m/c and t/f questions. Global health inequalities: enduring health disparities between countries, infant mortality (very sensitive to prenatal care and right after the baby is born) and child mortality good measures of sdh. Health and social well being of entire countries bc if you die at a young age= problem with h-care and social conditions. Tuesday, november 11, 2014: follow very similar patterns to social gradients in different countries, childhood mortality has decreased a lot, more than halved, death before the age of 5, child risks of dying is the. Rst 28 days of life: most of these deaths are preventable, leading cause of deaths birth complications, diarrhea and malaria, almost all linked to malnutrition.