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Human Wellbeing
Geography
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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.
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Happy Planet Index
HPI
Ranks
each country based on wellbeing
HPI
= wellbeing x life expectancy x inequality of outcome ÷
ecological footprint
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Human Development Index
HDI
Measures
Education
(Literacy rate),
Health
(life expectancy), and Wealth (GNI/capita) of a country
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Development
Changes in the economic and
social
conditions in a country which improves the standards of
living
of its people
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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
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LEDC
(less economically developed country)
Countries that have a low standard of living. E.g.
Ethiopia
,
Haiti
, Bangladesh
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GDP per capita
Sum of all the
gross
value (goods and services) divided by the
population
of the country
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Spatial Distribution
How resources, activities and
human demographic features
of
landscapes
are arranged across the earth.
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Spatial Association
The
strength
of the
pattern
between the locations/distributions of 2 different geographical features
"strong" "weak" "
no
" -
spatial
association
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Spatial Variation
When a quantity that is measured at
different
spatial locations exhibits values that
differ
across the locations
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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.
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Gender Inequality
The
unequal treatment
of someone based on
gender
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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
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Sub Saharan Africa
Any country
south
or partially south of the
Saharan Desert
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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
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Primary Industry
agriculture
, mining forestry
industries concerned with obtaining
natural raw materials
for conversion into
products
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Secondary Industry
factories, manufacturing
industries that convert
raw materials
into commodities and
products
for the consumers
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Tertiary Industry
businesses, schools,
hospitals
,
restaurants
, shops
industries concerned with the provision of
services
to its
consumers
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Subsistence farming
agriculture
in which farmers focus on
growing food
to feed themselves and their families
local
requirement and
little-to-no
trade surplus
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GDP (
Gross Domestic Product
)
value of the
total output
of all goods and services produced by the residents of a
country
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Other reasons for variations in wellbeing
war
,
corruption
, lack of resources, government, inequality
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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
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Reasons for low education of women
Early marriage
, security issues. limited access to schools,
war
, poverty
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Malaria
- defintion
a life-threatening disease caused by the spread of
mosquitos
in
tropical
countries
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Malaria
- symptoms, origin, treatments
fever, chills, fatigue,
seizures
,
difficulty breathing
began
in
Africa
medicine, repellents,
nets
,
protective clothing
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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
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Malaria
- countries impacted
Sub-saharan africa
and
oceania
humid
areas = higher chance of
malaria
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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
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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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