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Chapter 9: Costs and Benefits of Development

Chapter 9: Costs and Benefits of Development. Modernization – replacement of traditional ideas, technologies, behaviors, and social systems with new/Western ones. Underdeveloped, Pre-Industrialized, Developing Nations Dependency Theory World Systems (Emanuel Wallerstein) Core Periphery

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Chapter 9: Costs and Benefits of Development

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  1. Chapter 9: Costs and Benefits of Development • Modernization – replacement of traditional ideas, technologies, behaviors, and social systems with new/Western ones. • Underdeveloped, Pre-Industrialized, Developing Nations • Dependency Theory • World Systems (Emanuel Wallerstein) • Core • Periphery • Semi-periphery

  2. Developed Nations need Undeveloped Nations to support their lifestyle • Alternatives to GNP? • Health costs, global vs. local • Diseases of poverty • Is Sustainable Development an Oxymoron? • What is being sustained? • Quality of life? • Future Generations • Environment • Health

  3. Over-Developed Nations • Health problems • Obesity • Dental • Infections • Transportation • Resistance strains • Pollution • Pesticides • Heavy Metals • Fewer “Natural Deaths” • Cancers • Alzheimer's • Hospice care

  4. Exporting the Problems of Over-Development • Move factories to Third World Nations • Export pollution • Export environmental degradation • Export poverty • Export Health Problems • Exporting economic risk (coffee)

  5. Health/Epidemiological transition • From gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases • To cardiovascular diseases and cancers • From diseases of youth to diseases of old age • Health Inequality – 90.3 for an Asian American women in Westchester Co. NY, vs. 57.9 for an African American man in D.C. • US ranks 34th in childhood mortality • Health inequality • No universal health care • Too expensive?

  6. Economic Inequality has many health effects • Less crowed living conditions • Greater access to private health care • Better food • More/better medicines • Safer cars • Safer neighborhoods • Better working conditions • Robin Hood Effect – social stress • Etc., etc., etc., . . . . .

  7. Ethnic Bias in Health Care • Spatial disparities in Health • Prisons • Colleges and Universities • Asthma and pollutants • See examples in text • Global Warming – Over-Development • Parasite habitat shift • Skin Cancer • Neural tube defects • Others?

  8. Asymmetric warfare tactics are also the result of social economic inequalities

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