The Human Development Index ( Hdi )

HDFS is an abbreviation for Human Development and Family Studies. The purpose of human development and family studies is to know how to study people and how their minds work, and how does their surroundings affect their decisions and choices that they are making. HDFS help people communicate with one another and to obtain a great healthy family relationship. HDFS does that by “teaching communication skills, negotiation skills, organization skills, and self-soothing skills (Marshall, 2015, p. 9).” They help the individuals gain the required amount of knowledge to prevent them from difficulties and to be able to act against a problem they may potentially encounter, and those individuals may be the children in our classrooms (Marshall, 2015).

Economic development can be defined generally as involving an improvement in economic welfare, measured using a variety of indices, such as the Human Development Index (HDI). A developing country is described as a nation with a lower standard of living, underdeveloped industrial base, and a low HDI relative to other countries. There are several factors which may have the effect of limiting economic development in such countries. Factors such as these include: primary product dependency, the savings gap and political instability.

A problem that affects the daily life of more than a hundred million people is inadequate sanitation and a lack of proper sanitation facilities. For example, only 87% of Indians in urban areas have access to a sanitized latrine, while only 33% of Indians in rural areas have access to a toilet, (The Guardian). This statistic is alarming, as it increases the susceptibility to diseases such as

Katherine Boo’s book, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, portrays the “new life” the people in India live as capitalism and globalism ventures into their lives. These two systems look to promise new and improved social opportunities for all classes, not just the wealthy. However, although this makes it seem like the government of India in the 21st century is progressing towards a more fairer society for all its citizens, the reality is, they are really not progressing at all. Of course, while capitalism and globalization initially gave all citizens, especially the lower classes, hope that more opportunities would be available to them, it seems it has prevaricated it all as these opportunities have been more transformative to the elite and privileged classes than it has for the poor.

In India, despite reforms and improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to socio-economic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket expenditures, with more than three-quarters of the increasing financial burden of health care being met by households.

Children must all have education no matter what even if they are just simply poor and are not having the best quality of life, “The 77-page report, “‘They Say We’re Dirty’: Denying an Education to India’s Marginalized” (India 1). A difference in humankind is a common act of becoming an outsider, which is not ok, because everyone on earth that are human’s are humans, which brings up the fact that disrespecting another of one’s kind is simply cruelty. A difference in how one was born does not give an excuse to the people who are acting upon it because it is disrespect towards all human kinds and being excluded and isolated because of this one fact does not prove one’s quality. There are many people in the world who do not receive equal rights because of how they look and because “of their living conditions” (India 2). When a newborn is born, they are innocent and do not qualify to be part of anything that had earlier happened to their parents, which brings up the fact that their living conditions do not describe in words who they are and why they are living there. People living in bad-conditioned areas can be possibly living there because of their poor wealth or because they have many of their friends and families their, which has been proven and confirmed that excuses of these kinds will not be tolerated for marginalizing

According to Emily B. Zimmerman, Steven H. Woolf, and Amber Haley, “In the United States, the gradient in health outcomes by educational attainment has steepened over the last four decades, in all regions of the United States, producing a larger gap in health status between Americans with high and low education”. Emphasizing strong education and health systems are crucial for economic expansion. People with lower education obtain higher risk jobs possibly threatening their health.Families with a higher income have more access to healthier food and health services. Higher income does not always mean improved health nevertheless in developing countries shown improved health due to access to health education. Teaching developing countries about appropriate medical care while being surrounded by unclean water, low level of sanitation and the minimal food is crucial to improving global health.

The two authors argue the main issue that India is continuing to face are due to the lack of concern for citizens especially for the poor citizens and women. Dreze and Sen proceed into their work as they continue to portray the way in which the citizens of India were being oppressed by the new economic and political policies. One of the issues Dreze and Sen use as an example of how India rapid economic growth is problematic is the countries lack to foster participation for economic growth. The lack of inclusion in economic growth leads to a wealth disparity between the citizens. The authors continue on depicting several other issues another one being the lack of enhancement to the standard of living despite generating economic growth from the use of public goods. The standards of living are a huge issue with India as it signals there is a large disparity within wealth. Dreze and Sen continue to document the lack of social and living standards especially in the case of education, medical care, and physical services like clean water, electricity, drainage, and sanitation. The authors proceed to make note how without a development of a social structure within India high economic growth can harm the citizens and ultimately neglect civil, political, and social rights. Dreze and Sen then

Poverty can impede children’s ability to learn and contribute to a social, emotional and behavioral problem. Poverty can also contribute to poor and health and mental health according to the National Center for Children (NCCP). People never know what they have until it is gone, some people may even take what they have for granted. For example losing a job may cause low income and sooner or later no income and then poverty, then the psychological effects that come along with poverty can be harmful to one’s mental and physical health. A Famous business magnate and philanthropist once said: “I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act”. In other worlds in order to decrease the rate of poverty, solutions from giving more affordable access to health care and access to efficient education to giving children cash allowance would make a tremendous difference.

The first image of poverty that enters most people’s minds is that of a third world nation, children of industrialized nation’s are not immune. “The United States’ child poverty rate is substantially higher- often two-to-three times higher- than that of any other major western industrialized nation (Child Poverty in the United States” 2000).” Canada has it’s share of problems as well. “Canada has the second highest child poverty rate when compared against 17 other industrialized nations around the world, second only to the United States (“What We Know” 1997).” Poverty often results in a less healthy population than would be otherwise expected. The reasons for this are varied. An economically limited individual will tend to live in more cramped conditions than his wealthy counterpart. Doctors are averse to providing free or low cost health care. When poor nutrition is combined with cramped

Economic development can be defined generally as involving an improvement in economic welfare, measured using a variety of indices, such as the Human Development Index (HDI). A developing country is described as a nation with a lower standard of living, underdeveloped industrial base, and a low HDI relative to other countries. There are several factors which may have the effect of limiting economic development in such countries. Factors such as these include: primary product dependency, the savings gap and political instability.

When taking into account constant technological discoveries leading to longer lives lived in developed countries and the ever exponentially increasing population of the Earth begs the question: how does one ensure the health of everyone while keeping a stable economy and infrastructure? This paper will be looking into how the systems and delivery of health care in a developed country with a low mortality and fertility rate, the United States, compares to a developing country with high fertility and mortality rates, India. The characteristics of a developed country is a high gross national income per person and a low gross national income per person indicates a developing country. India boasts the second highest population in the world just

As public and structural levels are aware and understand more about determinants of health and their impact on children’s health and within government prevention strategies and services in place gives chance to get out of the poverty cycle. By spending more capital on health, more learning resources, more financial support and equal opportunities for those who has less chance to success as they are at higher risk to grow into poor adult predisposing their future children to grow up in the poverty as they did. In my opinion, we are more capable now to end this “cycle of poverty “ which is not only important to individuals but also to society (Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty,

The country of India is second in terms of population size and the major cities are becoming overcrowded. Poverty rates in India have increased over the last few years and despite the economic boom the country is experiencing, the people are still living in overcrowded ghettos or slums. Overcrowding and population has brought healthcare challenges. In India, maternal and child mortality are still high, malnutrition among children and pregnant women increase yearly, and the country leads the numbers of Tuberculosis (TB) infection. Furthermore, India’s HIV problem has increased and now is third among 195 countries. The lack of basic healthcare, support and supplies from Indian official has only fueled the healthcare challenges it faces.

Another third world country that is economically struggling is Kenya. It is one of the most unequal countries of the sub-region where forty two percent of the population suffer from poverty. From the years 2005 to 2006, 47% of Kenya’s population was poor, 46% was living in food poverty and 20% was in severe poverty, (Abdulai, 2011). Even though the percentage of those living under the poverty line decreased from 1997 to 2006, unfairness and poverty in certain areas was still unescapable. Just like India, several people reside in the rural areas in Kenya where agriculture is the main source of income that everyone is dependent on, however, there is food and poverty insecurities here because of the persistent droughts that damage the crops. On the other hand, this drastically reduces the income of the family, making it hard to afford the basic necessities of life. Because of these conditions that the Kenyans live under, the children lack a proper education because they are forced to work to help provide for the family. only 50% of boys and 35% of girls attend school after age of 16. And only 3% of those continue to tertiary education, (Poverty in Kenya, 2011). Along with that, those who are extremely poor, can’t even afford and education so they end up going directly into the work force. There are several issues in Kenya that fuel child labor. Some of the problems include: poverty in various regions, violence, traditional practices, and HIV/AIDS, which has orphaned numerous