Tag: Health
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Why is the UK’s Child Mortality Rate so High?
The United Kingdom has the highest child mortality rate in Western Europe except for Malta. The UK’s child mortality rate currently stands t 6.5 per thousand live births. This has been the case for many years now and a recent research study into the causes has found that deprivation is the key factor which correlates…
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Strategies for Improving Health in Developing Countries
These obviously stem from people’s theories about what the ‘causes’ of poor health are. Long term economic growth The first and probably most important point is that there is a broad, if not perfect, correlation between a country’s per capita income and its levels of health, as measured by life expectancy, infant mortality, overall death…
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Why do Developing Countries have so many Health Problems?
Health and Development is one of the aspects of development students taking the global development option for A-level sociology have to study… There are a number of fairly obvious explanations as to why low income countries face poor health conditions. Lack of an improved water source Hundreds of millions of people in sub Saharan…
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Theories of Development applied to Health
As a genera rule, people in developing countries suffer from poorer health than people in developed countries – with higher rates of deaths from preventable causes resulting in higher child mortality rates and lower life expectancies. Theories of development aim to explain why this is the case and what the most effective solutions to improving…
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A critical look at Bill Gates plan the plan to vaccinate the world
A recent series of videos by the Corbett Report offer a critical look at the role of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in global health generally and in our response to covid-19 more specifically. The report suggests that our rush to develop a vaccine for the entire world population is really about establishing a…
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How is Coronavirus Affecting Developing Countries?
It is worth distinguishing first of all between the negative health effects of the virus itself and the negative effects of government lockdowns. The severity of lockdowns and the capacity to enforce them vary from country to country, and so the consequences of this politically imposed response to the pandemic will vary greatly across countries.…
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How has Coronavirus Affected the UK?
What are the short and long term affects of Coronavirus for the UK’s social and economic development? in this post I focus on how Coronavirus has affected health (obviously) education, work and employment, as well economic growth prospects. There are many more consequences I could focus on, but all of the above are specifically on…
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The coronavirus class-divide
Those in working class jobs are about two to three times more likely to die of covid-19 related deaths compared to those in middle class jobs. The Office for National statistics allows you to look at the latest figures for covid-19 infections and covid-19 related deaths, and one of the aspects of the death rate…
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A Covid vaccine for the rich, but not the poor?
Moderna is a BioTech company that has had some recent success with a covid-19 vaccine in clinical trials – vaccine mRNA 1273. There’s a video about it here: Moderna says it has the capacity to produce 1 billion shots of the vaccine in 2021 and has already sold most of those shots to rich governments,…
