i have a couple of questions with MDG's
1. For the reasons why goal 3 is important. Can i just say when women have equal access to education they are literate > employable > higher income > afford food/water/healthcare > reduced infections/malnutrition > therefore better health status (i kinda feel like i say the same thing for Goal 1 and 2 aswell, is that okay?)
or is it better to say something that relates only to this goal?
As long as it directly relates to the goal, that's fine - that's one of the strengths of the MDGs, that they're so interlinked; when you improve one, you're helping improve the others too. (A really great answer, too, btw).
2. For the targets should we learn the amount they aim to reduce by. e.g.. 'Reduce by 3/4 the maternal mortality rate'
I didn't in that case, and just said 'reduce number of deaths of women due to pregnancy and childbirth and increase access to reproductive health services'; but as long as you've got the number right, it'd probably be good to know. 'Purpose' doesn't 100% equal targets, it's kinda flexible.
3. Is the importance of goal 6 basically reducing these diseases through education and behavioural changes will improve BOD?
Yes, but here are a couple of examples to warn you to be careful:
2013 examOutline two reasons why Isabel Province is committing resources to the elimination of malaria. (2)
This is a cloaked 'reasons why important' Q.
- reduce BOD, improve health and health status
- reduce poverty - people will be able to work, earn income, access safe water, sanitation, healthcare, food etc.
- increased wealth of the province as people can work and contribute to economic ouptut
- fewer children left orphans - can go to school, be educated, earn income etc.
Just
4% of people got 2 marks for this.
So they tried again in the
2014 exam.
Outline two reasons why the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) would support the implementation of an HIV/AIDS program in a developing country to reduce the burden of disease. (2)
Again, cloaked question. Because BOD is in the question, you can't mention it, so you must have two other reasons. Possible answers:
- people sick with HIV/AIDS can't work --> less revenue in country --> less healthcare, education, welfare, infrastructure
- parents die of HIV/AIDS --> kids orphans --> can't have nutrition/immunisation; can't go to school --> poor income --> cycle of poverty
Again, just
4% full-marked it. It's successfully answering questions like this that set apart the 48+ers.
I GUARANTEE you'll get a question something along these lines in the exam, because they retest failure areas.
4. I don't really understand goal 7 at all ... ( i get the drinking water and sanitation bit, but i don't think thats enough )
Yeah, it can be confusing; I tended to remember 4 things:
- safe water/sanitation as you said
- reduce loss of environmental resources (so stuff like trees, water, good soil, fish, etc. - if we get rid of these now, in the future there'll be poverty because people will have food insecurity and malnutrition etc.)
- reduce biodiversity loss (save all the endangered species and the trees we're killing off, etc. - this one's hard to link to H&HD)
- improve lives of slum dwellers (so they can access a basic decent standard of living, have some shelter and sanitation facilities and decent food and water etc.)