I am not exactly sure what to do when questions ask for a comparison between Australia and a developing country in relation to the 7 factors.
Eg:
- How does global marketing affect the health status of Australia and developing countries?
and
- How does peace/political stability affect the health status of Australia and developing countries?
( i find these two the hardest to grasp - with global marketing in the developing world, i find it hard to understand that they can't afford basic nutritional needs and clean water, but they market tobacco and fast food in some countries? )
Hope i made sense
Ugh. Global marketing.
Okay, yes they do market tobacco/fast food/alcohol in developing countries. Think about tobacco or alcohol; if you get addicted, you'll probably buy it even if you can't afford it, right? So, people
DO buy these things (I've been in India, and more people smoke than in Aus., even though they honestly can't afford decent food). But in Australia, if people buy cigarettes, they can generally still afford clean water, healthcare, education, and enough food, to whatever extent, so there's less of an impact. But if people buy them in developing countries, then they're even less able to afford all the necessities so global marketing has a BIG impact.
But there are other reasons why it has a bigger impact in developing countries:
> they don't have as much health promotion so they might not get how dangerous it actually is
> they don't have the same rules, e.g. what filters cigarettes need, or no sale to under-18s
> they can't afford the healthcare to treat the resultant diseases (CVD, diabetes, liver and lung cancer etc.)
> they then have a double burden of disease, because they have heaps of communicable diseases, but this adds NCDs on top of that so it's twice as bad (in Aus we have very few CDs)
Peace: actually read the last two pages of the thread (like from
here onwards), we've discussed it quite a bit. If you don't get it then, ask again
Also, up until know, when a question asks about health we relate it to the Physical, Mental and Social. Is this the same in unit 4 if a question asks about health??
Yes - unless it says either 'health status' or 'global health'.