GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Sub-Saharan Africa, Human Poverty Index, Multidimensional Poverty Index
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The last lesson in this module deals with the geography of health, a subdiscipline of human. Geography that studies the spatial differentiation of health. This variation suggests that geography matters very much when it comes to matters of health and health care. That is to say, in which country you live may have considerable influence on how healthy you are or can hope to remain in the future. For instance: the average canadian life expectancy at birth is now just over 78 years, while a person now born in sierra leone may expect to live not even half as long. Let us examine the canadian situation in more detail. In 1998, canada was ranked first in the united nations" human development index (hdi). By 2015, canada dropped down to ninth place, with the top three going to norway, australia, and switzerland. Un"s human development report for 2015 (http://hdr. undp. org/en/2015-report) and the country profile for canada (http://hdr. undp. org/en/countries).
