Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Labor Rights, North American Free Trade Agreement, Human Capital Flight
30 Apr 2012
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Child and adult mortality rates worldwide have been decreasing, but there is a significant difference in the rates between different countries. Life expectancy is lower for males than females in usa, but is much closer between males and females in other countries. Developing countries are characterized by having: low levels of income, high population density, high fertility, wide gaps between the rich and poor, high morbidity and high mortality. It implies that countries should be more alike western countries. Brain drain: health care workers and resources are being sucked out of those countries into to other countries. Globalization: economic (trade policies, creating a world market), political (spread of neoliberal political ideology rule of the market) and cultural (language spread of english language around the world) Globalization processes are associated with neoliberal policies. Major trade centers used to be located in northern europe, but now they are mostly. Structural adjustment programs (saps) are conditional loans promoted by the imf and wb.
