the Kenyan government recently declared HIV/AIDS a national disaster. In 2004 the Kenyan Ministry of Health announced that HIV/AIDS had surpassed malaria and tuberculosis as the leading disease killer in the country. Thanks largely to AIDS‚ life expectancy in Kenya has dropped by about a decade. Since 1984 more than 1.5 million Kenyans have died because of HIV/AIDS. More than 3 million Kenyans are HIV positive. More than 70 people a day die of HIV-related illnesses. The prevalence rate for women
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economy. It is a monetary value placed on all of a countries goods and services within a year time period. The Human Development Index is another figure utilized to determine the health and well being of the inhabitants of a country. Education‚ life expectancy and income are all evaluated in the HDI. Utilizing the GDP and HDI we are able to compare and contrast the economies of different countries. For this project our group chose to analyze the current economic states of the industrialized country
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the richest nations in the world mostly located? A) Southern Hemisphere B) Western Hemisphere C) Northern Hemisphere D) Eastern Hemisphere E) on the Equator | | | 3. Which of the following is NOT an indicator of Social Development? A) life expectancy B) under age 5 mortality rate C) adult literacy rate D) infant mortality rate E) population density | | | 4. What are centrifugal forces? A) cultural and political forces acting to weaken or divide an existing state B) geological forces
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impacts the quality of education in Chile. Kortney Reddick Geo 328 Persuasive Paper 2/27/2013 1) Choose a Latin American or Caribbean Country: Chile 2) What is the Population Size of this Country? 17‚269.5 3) What is the Life Expectancy at Birth for people in this country? 79.1 4a) what is the Human Development Index Score of this Country? 44 To answer the next set of questions‚ scroll down the page and look to the right-hand side. Click on the Link: HDI Explanation 4b)
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Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a summary composite index that measures a country’s average achievements in terms of three basic aspects of human development: longevity‚ knowledge‚ and decent standard of living. Longevity is measured through life expectancy at birth Knowledge is measured by a combination of the adult literacy rate and the combined primary ‚ secondary and tertiary gross enrollment ratio and Standard of living is measured through GDP per capita (PPP US$) The value of HDI is ranging
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billion to 6.0 billion in the years 1900-2000. A new century (20th) meant that despite having two world wars the standards of living started to improve and peoples’ life expectancy increased. In 2002 the worlds population increased by 1.2 percent‚ which totaled to more than 6.2 billion people in the world. Once the rate of the increase had been translated into a net addition‚ it came to about 200‚000 people per day being born‚ which also meant about 74 million people a year were born. This also
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organisms exceeds the carrying capacity of their habitat. We are facing the effects of overpopulation in our daily lives. Overpopulation has impacted the life of common man and has proved to be one of the gravest difficulties that have to be fought. Overpopulation implies scarcity of resources and economic inflation; these are the monsters which can make life miserable. Living through the negative effects of overpopulation have made us realize serious problems associated with it. It is high time we wake
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different patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groups‚ these are: Gender Social class Ethnicity Age Geographical location The black report Gender Women’s life expectancy is higher than men; women typically live five years longer than men (Stretch and Whitehouse 2012. In 2002‚ life expectancy at birth for females born in UK was 81 years‚ compared with 76 years for males. This contrasts with 49 and 45 years respectively at the turn of the last century in 1901(Sikin‚ L undated)
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Human Development Index (HDI) The first Human Development Report introduced a new way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy‚ educational attainment and income into a composite human development index‚ the HDI. The breakthrough for the HDI was the creation of a single statistic which was to serve as a frame of reference for both social and economic development. The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension‚ called goalposts‚ and then shows where each country
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Introduction Demographic features of fertility‚ mortality‚ migration‚ marriage and social mobility can impact on development of the society. Development is undisputedly a multi- dimensional and multi-faceted concept which influences and influenced by a varied host of factors and demographic features. The term ‘‘demographic features’’ spring from demography which means the study of human population‚ including their size‚ composition‚ distribution‚ densities‚ growth and other characteristics as well
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