Health

• Sutcliffe - the majority of deaths in developed countries are from non-infectious medical conditions such as heart disease and cancer. In developing countries, the main health problem are communicable diseases
• 35% of deaths of children under 5 in developing countries are caused by preventable diseases such as measles and malaria.
• Oxfam - in Ghana, children of educated mothers 2x more likely to survive to their 1st birthday.
• Positives of Western-style healthcare - effective (have eradicated the diseases currently faced by developing countries), encourage western norms and values
• Negatives of Western-style healthcare - EXPENSIVE, lowers status of traditional medicine, Brain drain
• Modernisation theory -> developing countries are currently at the stage developed countries were at in the past. Should draw on aid from the west, drop traditional medical practices + focus on centralised healthcare.
• Dependency theory -> colonisation changes health in the colonies, neo-colonialism continues. MacDonald - argues that gap in health between developed and developing worlds is due to the relationship between them.