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    • Human Wellbeing
      The recognition that everyone around the world, regardless of geography, age, culture, religion or political environment, aspires to live well.
    • Happy Planet Index
      HPI
      Ranks each country based on wellbeing
      HPI = wellbeing x life expectancy x inequality of outcome ÷ ecological footprint
    • Human Development Index
      HDI
      Measures Education (Literacy rate), Health (life expectancy), and Wealth (GNI/capita) of a country
    • Development
      Changes in the economic and social conditions in a country which improves the standards of living of its people
    • MEDC (more economically developed country)

      Countries that have a high level of development in terms of economic and social indicators. E.g. Australia, USA, Germany
    • LEDC (less economically developed country)

      Countries that have a low standard of living. E.g. Ethiopia, Haiti, Bangladesh
    • GDP per capita
      Sum of all the gross value (goods and services) divided by the population of the country
    • Spatial Distribution
      How resources, activities and human demographic features of landscapes are arranged across the earth.
    • Spatial Association
      The strength of the pattern between the locations/distributions of 2 different geographical features
      "strong" "weak" "no" - spatial association
    • Spatial Variation
      When a quantity that is measured at different spatial locations exhibits values that differ across the locations
    • Poverty Cycle
      Means that you live on less than $1 a day, remaining in poverty for 3 or more generations. Mainly occurs in developing countries where there is intense, extreme and widespread poverty.
    • Gender Inequality
      The unequal treatment of someone based on gender
    • GII (Gender Inequality Index)
      A composite measurement of gender inequality based on:
      - reproductive health (infant mortality)
      - empowerment
      - the labour market (% working)
      A low GII = a high human wellbeing
    • Sub Saharan Africa
      Any country south or partially south of the Saharan Desert
    • Stages of the poverty cycle
      1. Low income families
      2. Poorer educational outcomes for children
      3. Difficulty getting a job
      4. Poorer overall life outcomes
    • Primary Industry
      agriculture, mining forestry
      industries concerned with obtaining natural raw materials for conversion into products
    • Secondary Industry
      factories, manufacturing
      industries that convert raw materials into commodities and products for the consumers
    • Tertiary Industry
      businesses, schools, hospitals, restaurants, shops
      industries concerned with the provision of services to its consumers
    • Subsistence farming
      agriculture in which farmers focus on growing food to feed themselves and their families
      local requirement and little-to-no trade surplus
    • GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

      value of the total output of all goods and services produced by the residents of a country
    • Other reasons for variations in wellbeing
      war, corruption, lack of resources, government, inequality
    • Gender Inequality Stats
      women work 2/3 of the worlds working hours, and produce 1/2 of the worlds food
      women earn 10% of worlds incomes and own less than 1% of property
      more than 2/3 of worlds illiterate adults are women
    • Reasons for low education of women
      Early marriage, security issues. limited access to schools, war, poverty
    • Malaria - defintion

      a life-threatening disease caused by the spread of mosquitos in tropical countries
    • Malaria - symptoms, origin, treatments

      fever, chills, fatigue, seizures, difficulty breathing
      began in Africa
      medicine, repellents, nets, protective clothing
    • Malaria - stats
      59.4% of global population at risk
      357 people per 100,000
      2022 - 249 million global cases, 608,000 deaths
      Africa 2022 - 235 million cases, 580,000 deaths (94% of global)
      - 76% deaths = child under age of 5
    • Malaria - countries impacted

      Sub-saharan africa and oceania
      humid areas = higher chance of malaria
    • Malaria & Human Wellbeing
      - kills, devastates economies, long-term health problems
      - reduce school and work attendance, impair brain development
      - pressure on fragile healthcare system, 40% hospital admissions in some African countries
      - annual expenses = 8 billion euros in Africa
    • Malaria - Strategy
      Global Malaria Program by WHO to Africa
      Deployment of insecticide-treated nets and repellents
      Research and data collection
      Funding = better sanitation, waste disposal programs, way to stop pooling water = stop mosquito breeding
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