POL101Y1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 68 pages long!)
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The who speculates that there are about 5000 deaths at the hands of ebola in west. Africa: this number is but an estimation given the fact that many people do not report their disease. By december, the who suspects up to 10000 cases per week. It has hit the countries that are most vulnerable in that they have the weakest health care systems and development in the world: liberia, sierra leone, guinea. Liberia has the most deaths, and yet it has the least amount of doctors available per person. These disparities and inequalities are very signi cant. These poverty-stricken states have war-torn infrastructures that has been damaged over the past two decades: civil war has been a huge damaging factor in these african countries. These populations are the most vulnerable in the world; in effect, they live on the margin of civilization. While we may have become healthier and wealthier in the past century, disparities in development have grown.
