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Pacific Poverty - Coggle Diagram
Pacific Poverty
Health in the Pacific
What are the 5 reasons for Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, cancer and cardiovascular diseases?
- unhealthy diets
- harmful use of alcohol and tobacco use
- physical inactivity
- economic, political and cultural
- policy choices
What are the 4 things that are the primary causes of vulnerability pushing families into poverty?
- the high cost of treatment and higher mortality amongst men
- inadequate social safety nets
- lack of access to pension for women increases the vulnerability of widow
- disability and premature death
What is the ‘double burden of malnutrition’, facing the Pacific?
- under-nutrition
- overweight
What causes stunting in Pacific children?
What are the statistics relating to stunting in the Pacific?
- Papua New Guinea (43 percent)
- Solomon Islands (33 percent)
- Vanuatu and Nauru (24 to 26 percent respectively)
- Tuvalu (10 percent).
What are the statistics relating to obesity in the Pacific?
- Least 10 Pacific Islands countries and Territories have more than 50 percent of the population is overweight
- Obesity prevalence ranges from more than 30 percent in Fiji to 80 percent among women in American Samoa.
What conditions are putting a burden on government health and welfare budgets, and on the families and individuals?
- earlier onset of diabetes type 2 affecting children
- disability resulting from chronic NCD conditions leading to amputations, vision impairment and blindness
“Ill health in children is closely linked with poor educational achievement and consequently a greater risk of poverty and vulnerability in the later part of life.” Why do you think this is the case?
- Ill health children can't go to school and study properly and cause not having good knowledge then leds to not having good jobs or not having jobs.
- Some communicable diseases can last for severl years to recover or can't have a solution to recover and then makes more poverty in the pacific.
“Evidence shows that the unmet need for family planning is high in most PICs, especially among marginalized or vulnerable groups and young people.” How does the lack of family planning impact the poor in the Pacific?
- Children make the poor family more vulnerable because grow up a child need money
- High fertility rates link to higher vulnerable and poverty with a higher-than-average risk of maternal mortality.
What is the link between the high teenage fertility rate in some PICs and poverty and vulnerability?
The high teenage fertility rate in some PICs may be linked to higher poverty and vulnerability through poor educational attainment and unemployment
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Background Info
- Location
- Poverty
- Land masses
- Population
- Resourse
- Websites
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poverty stats that help define how poverty is determined (what does living below the poverty line mean?)
the poverty line after deducting housing costs for a household with two adults and two children lies at $600 per week or $31,200 annually in 2016 dollars. For a sole parent with one child it is $385 per week or $20,200 annually in 2016 dollars (MSD Household Incomes report July 2017
https://nzccss.org.nz/work/poverty/facts-about-poverty/
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Poor diet
- coco nuts
- fruits
- seafood
- low calorie food
- need vitamin, protein minerals
Health issues
- diabetes
- ischaemic
- heart disease
- stroke
What is a vulnerable person?
In general, a vulnerable person is either a minor or someone who, for physical or mental reasons, is unable to look after themselves or their finances.
growing number of people are being left behind - young and the elderly, the less well educated, internal rural-to-urban migrants as well as those who have poor health or who live with a disdability.
women
- more vulnerable
- seen as inferior (culture belief )
- not given the job because of gender
- unequal property rights but responsible for the property.
- fewer women in the workforce even though high rates of education
- women work in low grade jobs where rights and welfare unprotected.
- work situation make them. over more vulnerable
- violence against women common, make poverty worse due to poor work performance and loss of wages.
