health Mind map

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Created on: 07-05-13 11:52

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Diet and Energy
- Hunger
  - Un easy or painful sensation caused by want of food.
  - Causes of Hunger
    - Armed Conflict: war disrupts agricultural production
    - Environment: strain on natural resources
    - Discrimination: lack of access to credit, education comes as a result of gender differences
    - Poverty: poor have no resources to grow/buy food
    - Poor have a lack of political power
  - Effects
    - Vulnerability to illness and infection
    - Impediment to developement
    - High infant mortality rate
    - Impediments to economic growth
- Obesity
  - Excessive or abnormal accumulation of fat in the adipose tissues
  - Causes
    - Global shift towards energy dense foods
    - Trend towards decreased physical excercise
  - UK
    - 1/6 boys and 1/7 girls obese
    - 61.3% adults and 28% kids obese or overweight
  - Health Risks
    - Deterioration of mental health
      - Depression costs £8.6 billon/yr
    - CHD and Type two diabetes
    - Lack of immunity
    - Cancer and arthritus
- Transnational Corporations
  - A company which operates in at least two countries
  - Pharmacuetical TNCs
    - A comany which researches, manufactures and distributes drugs
  - Tobaccp TNCs
    - Phillip Morris
      - Sold 805 billion cigarrettes in 2005
      - Researches potentially less harmful cigarattes
      - Have a responsible marketing policy where they do not sell to kids
    - Framework Convetion on Tobacco Control
      - LEDC's tagetted
        They do not sign the treaty as cannot afford to regulate companies. It is easier for TNCS to advertise and lack of taxes/cheap construction means they can get maximum profit
        70% sold in LEDCs due to lack of education, awareness and it is seen as the most basic luxury.
      - Protects public health by restrcting advertising, labelling and contents of packages.
- CHD
  - Most common cause of death in MEDCs
  - 7.2 million deaths/annum
  - Occurs in most deprived regions of MEDCs and most westernized egions of LEDCs
Hunger
- Un easy or painful sensation caused by want of food.
- Causes of Hunger
  - Armed Conflict: war disrupts agricultural production
  - Environment: strain on natural resources
  - Discrimination: lack of access to credit, education comes as a result of gender differences
  - Poverty: poor have no resources to grow/buy food
  - Poor have a lack of political power
- Effects
  - Vulnerability to illness and infection
  - Impediment to developement
  - High infant mortality rate
  - Impediments to economic growth

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