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Poverty in the pacific-Dominic - Coggle Diagram
Poverty in the pacific-Dominic
Background info
Population
Location
Resources
Land masses
Poverty??
Impact 2 No land
Ocean flooding
Small land
Population too high for small island
Impact 3 Urbanisation
Houses take up space for arable land
Houses take up space where animals and farms can be
Urbanisation take away tradition
Impact 1 Lack of food
No refrigerating system to keep food good
Not enough animals
not enough land to plant crops
Too much people per town
Floods ruin foods from strong currents
From strong winds and bad weather
Lack of money
Not enough fuel to go fishing
bad soil, usually full of gravel
Gender Vulnerability (women)
Violence against women is common.
Women work in low grade job where rights and welfare unprotected
Responsible for property
Gets socially excluded
Women in the pacific are more vulnerable
Women are more easily stigmatized due to socio-cultural vales
Unequal property rights but responsible for the property. (don't own it but have to look after it).
violence against omen comen Makes poverty worse due to poor performance.
Seen as inferior (cultural belief).
Case study: vulnerable children vanuatu
1. Why is access to health care difficult?
Access to healthcare is one of the largest problems in the country concerning children. The fact that the territory is broken up into many small islands subject to natural catastrophes is an obstacle to the proper implementation of national programs.
2.What is the result of poor access to health care?
Due to all of these factors, the infant mortality rate is relatively high (16%). For the World Health Organization, Vanuatu is one of the most difficult countries in the Pacific States in which to combat malaria.
3.What diseases kill the children of Vanuatu?
Malaria causes close to 20% of deaths in children under 5 years old. Moreover, the survival and development of children is even more threatened byacute respiratory tract infections and diarrhoeal diseases.
4. What is the situation regarding education?*
Education is, in fact, only offered in the two official languages, French and English, which are the native tongues of only 4% of the population.
5.What are the long term effects of poor education?
Lower educational attainment is associated with lower earnings, higher crime rates, poorer health and mortality outcomes, and reduced participation in political and social institutions.
6.What is the connection between education and child labour?
Children in Vanuatu generally begin to work at a very young age, mainly due to limited access to education. The law forbids forced labour for children under 12, except in family agriculture where many of them help their parents.
Due to this low age limit and exception, many children work in conditions inappropriate for their young age.
Poor diet
No access to healthy food
Health
wont be enough money to pay doctors.
more sickness, which will lead to more deaths.
health qualities will go down
less nutritious foods lead to stunted children
Economical
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1.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, tobacco use and physical inactivity.
2. What are the 4 things that are the primary causes of vulnerability pushing families into poverty?
Disability and premature death as a result of NCDs are now amongst the primary causes of vulnerability pushing families into poverty. The high cost of treatment and higher mortality amongst men, inadequate social safety nets and lack of access to pension for women increases the vulnerability of widow or single women headed households and their dependents.
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3. What is the ‘double burden of malnutrition’, facing the Pacific?
it is estimated that one in three Pacific children under five years of age are stunted because of chronic under-nutrition during critical periods of growth and development in early life.
4.What causes stunting in Pacific children?
The short answer is a poor diet
5.What are the statistics relating to stunting in the Pacific?
(43 percent), followed by Solomon Islands (33 percent), Vanuatu and Nauru (24 to 26 percent respectively) and Tuvalu (10 percent).
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6. What are the statistics relating to obesity in the Pacific?
more than 50 percent of the population in at least 10 Pacific Islands countries and Territories is overweight. Obesity prevalence ranges from more than 30 percent in Fiji to 80 percent among women in American Samoa.
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7.What conditions are putting a burden on government health and welfare budgets, and on the families and individuals?
conditions leading to amputations, vision impairment and blindness is increasing. These conditions are placing a growing burden on government health and welfare budgets, and on the families and individuals.
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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?
9.
“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?
10. What is the link between the high teenage fertility rate in some PICs and poverty and vulnerability?