SOSC 2800 Lecture 14: Week 14 - Health, Education, and Development

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2800
• Professor: Merouan Mekouar

Document Summary

Rich societies distinguished by poor usually by economic measure - gdp is an important indicator - but healthcare and education are also important and essential foundations of development. Education challenges traditional values and social arrangements, empowers men and women to actively engage in society. Allows for increased agricultural productivity, technological advancements, etc. African farmers least productive in world - attributed to low literacy rates. Newly developed countries - taiwan, south korea, singapore - raised literacy rates and invest heavily in education - degree of investment does not always capture the quality of training. Many developing countries caught in cycle of poor literacy rates and poor healthcare - places severe economic and social burden on families and society as a whole. Asia - rapid industrialization with heavily subsidized healthcare - realized unhealthy population is detrimental to achieving economic development. Africa - largest number of people living with aids.