CLASSIFYING COUNTRIES
The economic measure used by the World Bank to classify countries into income groups.
What is GNI per capita?
One of the three dimensions measured by the Human Development Index that is represented by life expectancy.
What is a long and healthy life?
The health status indicator most directly affected by deaths of children under five.
What is the under-five mortality rate?
Water free from disease-causing pathogens and harmful chemicals.
What is safe water?
The term used to describe a damaging lack of material benefits considered basic necessities.
What is deprivation?
The income classification that includes Australia, Canada and Japan.
What are high-income countries?
The Human Development Index dimension measured by years of schooling.
What is access to knowledge?
The health status indicator most directly affected by deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth.
What is the maternal mortality?
Diseases such as cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea.
What are waterborne diseases?
The type of poverty experienced by people living on less than approximately US$3 per day.
What is absolute poverty?
The classification given to countries such as China, Fiji and South Africa.
What are upper middle-income countries?
The Human Development Index dimension measured by GNI per capita.
What is a decent standard of living?
The health status indicator likely to improve when deaths from infectious diseases decrease.
What is life expectancy at birth?
The safe disposal of human urine and faeces.
What is sanitation?
The type of poverty experienced by people living on less than 50% of their country's average income.
What is relative poverty?
A major limitation of using GNI per capita to classify countries.
What is that it does not show wealth distribution within a country?
The process of expanding people's choices and enabling them to lead lives they value.
What is human development?
The body system weakened by undernutrition, increasing susceptibility to infectious disease.
What is the immune system?
The group responsible for collecting most household water in many low-income countries.
Who are women and children?
The term describing a country experiencing diseases associated with both poverty and wealth.
What is the double burden of disease?
The income classification for countries with a GNI per capita of $1135 or less.
What are low-income countries?
The four groups of the Human Development Index.
What is very high human development, high human development, medium human development, low human development?
This health status measure combines the years of healthy life lost due to premature death and the years lived with illness or disability into a single statistic.
What are Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)?
The infectious diseases commonly linked to inadequate sanitation.
What are diarrhoea, cholera and typhoid?
Four resources commonly restricted by poverty that influence health status and human development.
What are nutritious food, healthcare, education, and safe water/sanitation?