Healthcare
A family such as family “B” is ideal for the countries success sake, because if there was a lot of income flowing back to the government (taxes) it makes it a lot easier to maintain institutional facilities that we need today. Many of these institutions are government regulated purposely to ensure development in our countries, provinces and towns. A great example of this is our healthcare system in Canada which allows access to a clean hospital in which we can be cured or fixed throughout our lives without ever having to sustain severe financial coverages. The job of the government is to increase the rate of development to maintain a balance and for generations to come be a guide line to create even better methods and improve the way in life. In the World Health Report, group designed to evaluate the level of national health care services around the world demonstrates that a solid healthcare system combined with a well functioning education system would allow populations to grow and more jobs being created.”World Health Report (2004) represents an ambitious attempt to evaluate national health care services across the world with the prospect of comparing performance, and enabling policy makers to better appreciate the complexity of health care. Thus, to an “unprecedented degree it takes account of the role of people as providers and consumers of health services, as financial contributors to health systems, as workers within them, and as citizens engaged in their responsible management, or stewardship” (WHO, 2001).
“The efficiency of a nation's health care and educational system are likely to reflect significant competitive advantages for the nation both at a global and European economic level. A well-educated and health conscious indigenous population coupled with superior physical and psychological health is likely to contribute to sustained economic advantages for that nation. This in itself lends credence to the value of maintaining efficient educational and medical systems. Furthermore, in developed industrialized communities a substantial proportion of the working population is engaged in the medical health and educational sectors. As a consequence, ever increasing costs incurred by such “human social services” impose tremendous financial burdens on many nations, straining an economy to its breaking point.” Poverty goes hand in hand with inadequate food, poor hygiene and a lack of sanitation which ultimately causes infections, diseases thus slowing the growth rate in children. Poverty is also associated with a lack of knowledge provided by parents. Mothers that are under stress, depression or lack education cannot teach a child necessary life skills in order for them to grow to their potential. If children are not enrolled in school or experience a lack of family support because of economic stress(working at home) or not seeing the advantage to gaining an education when they can jump the gun and start working. These vital factors help a child development and are key roles in making sure the generations to come are successful.
Resources
Another aspect that we need to further investigate is the amount of resources we have access to. Resources in a sense of raw materials displaced around us and resources in a technological way. The country we live in has a vast amount of resources for us to harvest. Tree’s, fresh water, minerals and wildlife are tools of the land that we use to better ourselves. With an abundance of these examples Canada is able to export them to other countries who lack these resources which economically, creates many jobs and incomes for thousands of families in a rippling effect. First of all there are workers required to claim the resources (cut tree’s, fish, grow farms etc) then they need people to extract the materials and make something out of it in a factory or plant and lastly they need a distributor to sell the goods. With multiple chains such as this, a country will be able to support themselves which will allow for themselves to prosper and grow together at a large. In many places around the world the means to access these economical resources cannot be conducted because the amounts are exhausted or there simply isn’t anything to be harvested such as countries located near deserts. When it comes to resources it boils down to the luck of the draw but in terms of technology, that’s a tool we use which for the most part does not require land resources. Technology could be used as a symbol to demonstrate how well a populated area has developed. The greater the technology, is an indicator that growth is occurring and with the new inventions and things we can do with this new technology only makes life easier for us which only allows us the insight, imagination and drive to further pursue and find greater things that allow life to flow more smoothly.
The HDI or Human Development index is a report that is published every year after investigations into a country to demonstrate the rate of growth. It measures three major categories life expectancy (shows how long a healthy life you potentially could live) literacy (education) and purchasing power which is measured by income.
Education
Education is the main tool used in production, growth, new ideas and improvements and is fundamentally the biggest factor in human growth. Studies show that the amount of money pushed into education will dictate the grades put out by the students. As we take a look at this chart made from the Program For International Student Assessment(PISA) organizations show that countries that have a high human development index results in having a better education simply because the systems and curriculums these countries use are far more advanced then many others
“No doubt it is assumed by policymakers that intensive and judicious spending in primary and secondary education would result in improved performance. There is, however, only a slight positive relationship between cumulative expenditure per student (in $) and average scores across literacy scales. This must partly be due to how the money is spent: that is, on school buildings, teacher salaries, reducing class sizes, school equipment, etc. “For other countries, many of whom spend more money per student, PISA has been a rude awakening to the urgent need for change. In Germany, it has stirred an intense debate—aside from the mutual finger-pointing that usually follows bad results—as to how to achieve a long overdue and radical overhaul of the country's educational system” (). Similarly, nations such as Italy, Denmark, and Switzerland display high spending in their educational systems, but perform lower than would be expected. The lower educational performance of countries such as Brazil and Mexico, however, is probably due to less investment in educational spending mainly because they are less affluent societies.”
“Countries like Finland, Korea, and Japan not only displayed superior performances on the scholastic attainment variables but revealed a small disparity between the lowest and highest performers. Conversely, Germany was one of the nations with a substantial difference between the lowest and highest performers, with much of the variation observed due to between school differences, presumably attributable to socioeconomic factors playing a major role (although migrant status may have had a significant influence). There was also some evidence that the countries investing more in education tended to display better than average performance. Nations attaining above average reading literacy scores included Canada, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Korea, and Japan, but they further showed a below average impact of social background on scholastic achievement. On the other hand, Germany, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, and Hungary showed quite different trends. In these countries, students from privileged social backgrounds tended to perform better. In other words, for countries such as Germany, high-income families show high performers among their offspring, but immigrant or poor children seem significantly less proficient in their learning skills. There was no single factor that explained better results of nations on the literacy skills, but some social and educational factors do seem implicated. For example, diverse school resources with an increased availability of specialist teaching personnel seem valuable, as does allowing the school a role in influencing decision-making processes: a high set of expectations and morale of the teachers, a good social climate within the classroom, and good discipline. Expenditure in education is not the sole determinant of educational outcome. In this study we intend to integrate national data sets to explore the role of other variables that may better explain these observed national differences.” (Grantham-McGregor, S.)
Childhood Development
Lastly we dive into the main aspect of human development. It is very important for a child to feel and discover certain emotions and lessons throughout his or her lifetime. Many children younger than 5 years in developing countries are exposed to multiple risks, including poverty, malnutrition, poor health, and unstimulating home environments, which will deffinantly affect their mental processes, motor, social and emotional developing skills. There are few national statistics on the development of young children in developing countries. two identifiable factors are available with worldwide data. The first being the prevalence of early childhood growth stunting and the number of people that are living in absolute poverty. We use these examples as an indicator of poor and unhealthy development. We show that both indicators are closely associated with poor mental processing and educational performance in children and use them to estimate that over 200 million children under 5 years are not fulfilling their developmental potential. Most of these children live in south Asia, Africa, and middle eastern countries. These disadvantaged children are likely to do poorly in school and subsequently have low incomes, high fertility, and provide poor care for their children, thus adding to the amount of impoverished places around the world. Being a child is the most important part of ones lifetime because it is in this very short span that we will learn everything we need to know and gain the necessary tools and knowledge required to embark the adventures of life. According to a child development institute a baby should be fed five to eight times on a regular basis be read to, be shown affection, love, care, fear and many other emotions at a certain time in their life. Depending on where you live the order in which a young one establishes these sense of emotions plays a particularly large part in the overall development. In such places of war, famine, drought often times children end up malnourished, sick or develop some type of disorder due to a lack of food or water. Some places even the adults cannot read because they had no education growing up which in the end, doesn’t help the growth rate of humans in that particular area. In other instances such as war, children may even be handed a gun and taught how to use it. The rate of crime, murder and micheif increase in these neighbourhoods because people were not taught right from wrong at an early enough stage for them to develop and understanding of their thoughts and actions.
Together we can all have to potential to exceed new levels and create many new and great things. Its imperative that we set ourselves up for success rather then failure and continue the trend throughout the planet as one large community. Currently, we have the power and technology to implement healthy, clean environments along with a solid school curriculum and educational institutes for everyone to take advantage of. We need to get our minds set on improving our world right now and in the future for the generations of our children to come.
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Daniel Fantin
PSYC1107B
Robertson
Human Development Comparing High Level Countries and Low Level Countries
Wednesday March 25, 2010.
Key Concepts: Human Development, Economy, HDI, Growth
Key Concepts: Government, Healthcare, systems, economic level
Key Concepts: Poverty, education, Resources, Technology, HDI
Key Concepts: PISA, Education, curriculem
Key Concepts: emotions: developing countries, skills, absolute poverty
