Indicators
HDI
Economic Industry
Relationships between QoL indicators
Definitions
100
the average number of years a person might live.
What is life expectancy?
100
A measure of a country's overall quality of life.
What is the Human Development Index?
100
Jobs that involve harvesting primary resources.
What is Primary industry (Fishing, Farming, Mining, Forestry)?
100
How does income effect education?
In countries that have to pay for education, low income families may mot be able to send children to school. they may even need to have children work to help support the family in meeting basic needs.
100
all people are treated the same, regardless of where they live or what their differences are.
What is equality?
200
the percentage of people who have a reasonable opportunity to go to school.
What is access to education?
200
Norway (0.944) and Canada (0.902) are examples of countries that have this.
What is a Very high HDI?
200
Jobs that are in the manufacturing or service industries.
What is the secondary industry?
200
How is literacy rate related to unemployment?
improved literacy rate can reduce unemployment levels by providing opportunities for good jobs.
200
the general well-being of a person or society as measured by meeting basic needs.
What is quality of life?
300
The percentage of people who have a means of getting an adequate amount of water for drinking.
What is access to safe water?
300
Countries such as Sudan (0.473) and Burkina Faso (0.402) are examples of countries with this.
What is a Very Low HDI?
300
Describe the process of the secondary industry, use an example.
Input - decisions are made Process - items are put together Output - finished product is shipped to stores and sold Feedback - sales of product determine success, customer feedback
300
Describe what happens when a country's GDP is low in relation to health care and education.
Gross Domestic Product - the amount of money brought in from goods and services to a country. if GDP is low, then a country may not be able to afford to allot enough money to improve healthcare and education resources.
300
improving a country's economy
What is economic development?
400
The ability to read, write and do basic calculations.
What is Literacy rate?
400
HDI is based on these 3 indicators:
What is the calculation of: - life expectancy (living a long and healthy life), - years of schooling (being knowledgeable) - and income (Gross National Income) (earning a decent standard of living)?
400
Define Tertiary industry and give an example.
Provides services to its consumers. Walmart, Hotels, Healthcare, Banks, Education, Mechanics, transportation (bus, taxi), Hair Salon.
400
What does a high life expectancy tell you about the values of a country's health care system?
a country with a longer life expectancy values healthcare and will put money into services that will help to prolong life.
400
having little or no money, possessions, or resources to meet basic needs.
What is poverty?
500
The amount of goods and services produced by a country (In US dollars).
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
500
Why is HDI important? Address all 3 measures.
It shows human development or well being by considering education and life expectancy. It also shows economic development through GNI.
500
Describe how bread would transform between the three different industries.
primary - wheat harvested, and shipped to flour mill secondary - input - decisions on ingredients process - flour mill - grain to flour, and bakery - flour to bread output - packaged and ready to sell feedback - number of loaves sold/customer opinions tertiary - selling the bread at stores or bakeries
500
Describe a relationship between safe water, access to health care and life expectancy
decreased safe water access = increase in preventable disease. if access to health care is low then preventable disease may not get treated, leading to death. this could mean increased death rates and lowered life expectancy.
500
improving the quality of life in countries around the world by improving social, political, economic and environmental systems. bonus - name an example of each system
What is global development? social - healthcare, education economic - improving industries to increase weath/reduce poverty political - protecting rights environmental - creating wind farm (sustainable projects)