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what are the 3x factors of wellbeing?
Health, Wealth and Education.
What is literacy?
ability to read and write
what are the 3 barriers to attending school
system
attendance
social
What are the 2 forms of measuring data (Q and Q)
Quantitative and Qualitative
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP) an indicator of?
GDP is the monetary value of all the goods and services produced in a country in a given year.
Space, place, interconnection, change, environment, scale, sustainability
what is numeracy?
the ability to understand and work with numbers.
What is the HDI and what is it used for?
Human Development Index. It is used to rank a country’s development on a world scale
What is a choropleth map and explain how they work?
A choropleth map is a map that shows a theme using different shades of colour. Colours range from light shades meaning 'least' and dark shades meaning 'most'.Choropleth maps can be used to quickly identify spatial patterns, that is patterns in how things are distributed on the Earths surface.
the UN describes poverty as what?
Remember: Poverty is described by the United Nations as a person who survives on less than $1.25 per day.
What were the wellbeing targets set by the United Nations in 2000 called?
Millennium Development Goals
Why is education the key to human wellbeing?
Being able to read and write gives people access to a greater number of services, and provides a range of options that can lead to better jobs, higher wages and improved standards of living.
provide 3x system barriers to attending school.
lack of teachers
no schools/classrooms
no materials eg books
3x attendance barriers for attending school
school fees,
distance to school,
poor transport networks
concern of many parents about the safety of their children.
Many children also work to help support their families.
3x social barriers to attending school
variations in language,
religion
war
Equitable social development, cultural preservation, conservation of the environment and promotion of good governance are the four guiding principles used to measure which indicator of human wellbeing, used in Bhutan?
gross national happiness
what effects can low literacy levels have on a country?
low levels of literacy and education can impede the economic development of a country and affect wellbeing.
Why do you think other countries have not adopted Bhutan’s measure of GNH?
Countries may think that the GNH index full of qualitative indicators is too hard to measure improvements and it is much easier to measure quantitative indicators such as GDP.
When GDP per capita is calculated, small countries with a low population are often at an advantage over countries with large populations.
Countries tend to have a few very wealthy people but a lot more people on low or average pay. When the GDP is calculated the wealth gets distributed evenly across everybody so the smaller the population, the less times the wealth of the very wealthy gets divided.
How do cartograms display information?
proportionately
list 5 factors important to Human healt
• clean air
• clean water
• secure food supply
• ability to treat and control the spread of diseases
• health care, especially during disasters
• care for the vulnerable
• emergency services in crisis.
what is Climate change?
Why is Wellbeing is highest in moderate climates (not too harsh nor to easy)
Why do People living in marginal climates (e.g deserts) have lower wellbeing?