Question

"Health". Based on the lecture and Webtext materials, address the following:. Describe your understanding of the North/ south divide as it relates to the health of populations in developing countries. Determine specific steps- aside from building more clinics- that the leadership in developing countries can take to improve their health care systems and, as a consequence, the health of the population.

Answer 1

In the north better health facilities are available. The doctor ratio per thousand population is more. The professionals are highly trained. There are advanced machines available. Health insurance cover vast no. Of people. Compared to this South has poor facilities, less no. Of doctors per 1000 population, dearth of advanced machines and so on. Developing countries should increase no. Of doctors, machines, health insurance cover , more health knowledge and information, public vaccination, repeated vaccination of missed cases etc are required in developinglll