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Source 13

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Source 2

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Source 1

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Jia Xin and Louis

2017-04-26 05:51:42 UTC

Social factors: In developed countries, the people suffer from obesity while in developing countries, the people suffer from malnutrition. In Source 2 DCs such as United States have the highest obesity rate at 34% causing people to die as a result of eating too much while in Source 3 we can see that in LDCs such as Somalia, many people are dying because they don't have enough to eat which will cause malnutrition.
-good comparison
-Elaborate the kind of diseases that obesity causes
Economic:
The trend is that developed countries generally have better and more advanced healthcare systems than less-developed countries ,For Instance in source 13, world immunisation day, most of the countries that have immunisation are mostly probably the DCs which are ranked among the best healthcares in the world, such as France, Italy, Singapore and most of the best healthcares listed in source 10 are DCs hence it shows that in LDCs it is due to the lack of investment in health care and access to health services thus causing poor health in the people, a classic example would be source 9 which shows a rural place hence it is less accessible and thus the provision of healthcare is limited.
-Give examples of the LDCs
-linking is shown

Environment:
Living conditions affect the health of the people. In LDCs the living conditions are poor and they are often overcrowded and polluted as shown in source 9 which shows rubbish all around the place. It includes lack of basic necessity such as the access to clean drinking water for example in source 7 where children are seen drinking from the ground water. Lack of access to safe water can lead to spread of water borne diseases. Contrary to that in DCs 99% of the people have safe drinking water.

Hwee en & Hui Xiang

2017-04-26 05:52:18 UTC

source 2
Source 2 shows the issue of obesity in the world. The source has shown that countries in DCs have a higher PERCENTAGE of obese people. This is because of their affluence and more choices in their diet. Many of the unhealthy foods like burgers, fries and fast food are cheap and therefore people consume these foods excessively which leads to obesity. However, Japan has a healthier food culture and they focus more on a healthy lifestyle and their diet focuses mainly on vegetables and a small portion of rice. Therefore, Japan has a small percentage of obese people
Comparison of health issues between DCs and LDCs is shown through the use of comparative words like 'higher', 'healthier'.
explanation for health issues in LDCs not included
link between obesity and health?
-Qing He, Jolene, Catherine

Tulip & Siti

magicpuppy91 — 2017-04-26 05:52:29 UTC

Generally, LDCs and Dcs face different health issues which are mostly related to their income.
[Source 3]: In LDCs (eg Somalia) face starvation and malnutrition due lack of money to obtain enough nutrition, on the other hand, in DCs (eg USA) people are facing obesity due to being able to afford more food.

The living conditions and environment also affect the health of people, especially in LDCs. eg in Source 6,7 and 9 show people in LDCs having lack of potable water, live in polluted environment(with alot of rubbish), this kind of environment facilitates the breeding of pests and the spread of virus.

The healthcare systems also affect the health of the people. People in Dcs are generally healthier due to the better healthcare systems in their countries(eg Source 10 France has the top healthcare system in the world) and Source 13 shows immunisation can help lower the chance of getting infected by diseases.

Comments

Jing Ting and Shyan Yun

2017-04-26 05:52:31 UTC

In America, Europe, which are mostly developed countries, people face obesity as a health problem. Many people pass away as a result of insufficient healthcare facilities, as seen in source 14, where people could not receive proper treatment before passing away. Also, as shown in one of the sources, people in developed countries consume different types of burgers each day, each burger double the size of a normal burger. This increases obesity problems as people consume more food.
Also, people living in the DCs are more affluent to afford alcoholic drinks, Over-consumption of such drinks can result in liver cirhosis, which leads to death.

However, in places such as Sub-Saharan Africa, which is a less-developed country, there are problems of malnutrition. In Somalia, many people, especially children are facing the problem of malnutrition . Many people are also facing the problem of lack of safe drinking water and as shown in one of the sources some were so desperate that they turn to drinking water on the ground which is unhygenic and can cause health care problems, leading to rise of people needing health care treatments. However, Africa is one of the least educated countries so there are lesser doctors to treat them and thus leading to deaths.

COMMENTS:
-Good comparison that both have health issues, and also between DCs and LDCs with specific examples from sources.
- Possible to include more variations instead of just two for comparison.
- For first paragraph should elaborate further on some healthcare facilities as well as it lacks the link.
-Good links at the end of paragraph 2 to summarize the points.
- You did not 'explain' the varia

Jarrod Benjamin

2017-04-26 05:52:34 UTC

Varies due to social factors such as their diets and lifestyle choicehEEs. From sources 1, 2 and 4, we can infer that lifestyle choices and diet will influence the people's health. In DCs, where they are more affluent and has higher purchasing power, their diets will include more non-staples such as meat and processed food. Excessive consumption will lead to adverse health effects such as obesity and chronic diseases like heart attack. Their higher disposable incomes also led to them making choices such as smoking, which leads to health problems. However, they can access medical aids easily as it is more affordable to them.
In LDCs, they lack the financial means to afford more expensive and luxurious food, so they consume more staple. This may lead to malnutrition. Their lack of income also causes them to not be able to access medical treatments. Thus their more severe illnesses may not be able to be cured. They also may not be able to afford proper sanitation, which will lead to spread of diseases.
Therefore, there is the variation in people's health in different parts of the world.

Qiao Rui Wei Wen Koi Jun

wong331 — 2017-04-26 05:52:35 UTC

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The trend is that developed countries (DCs) generally have better and more advanced healthcare systems than less-developed countries (LDCs), which is evident in source 10 which showed that there were only 2 LDCs in the countries with the top 50 healthcare systems. However despite having a better health system, DCs still face health crises because people are endangering their lives by consuming too much junk food or smoking cigars, evident in source 3, 4 and
1.

1. Another reason of high mortility rates due to diseases is that the response time for healthcare is too slow and by the time it becomes available, the patients would have long been dead. This is evident from source 13. Furthermore, LDCs also face a lack of food and clean water. This leads to malnutrition and a diminished immune system. Furthermore, drinking polluted water may cause the spread of water-borne diseases. This may occur in source 7.(Healthcare is unavailable/inaccessible. Thus, mortality rate is high)

2.

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Jarrod, Benjamin and Zinuo
1) What are the specific factors?
2) Sufficient explanation
3) How does the mentioned lifestyle choices lead to variations in health conditions?
4)

Ziying, Celine & Jewel

2017-04-26 05:52:36 UTC

SOURCE 3

Both developed countries and less developed countries face health problems. People living in developed countries consume food excessively, resulting in obesity. On the other hand, people living in less developed countries consume insufficient food, resulting in starvation and malnutrition.

GOOD COMPARISON THAT BOTH HAVE HEALTH ISSUES.
ELABORATE THE HEALTH ISSUES EG HEART DISEASES (OBESITY), BERI BERI (MALNUTRITION)

Social:
People in developed countries have a diet of mostly meat and other non-staple food, which results in excessive fat consumption. People in less developed countries have a diet of mostly cereal and other staple food and do not have sufficient amount of nutrients in their body.

THE SOCIAL FACTORS MAY BE SUBSUMED WITH THE ECONOMIC FACTORS? IF EXPLAIN SOCIAL FACTORS, FOCUS ON LIFESTYLE CHOICES AS WELL --> SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE IN DCS --> HIGH OBESITY

EXPLAIN ECONOMIC FACTORS TO SHOW POOR HEATLH
HIGH DISPOSABLE INCOME - HIGH AMOUNT AND LARGE VARIETY OF FOOD -- > HIGH FAT DIET --> OBESITY AND ITS RELATED DISEASES.
EXPLAIN THE SAME FOR LOW DISPOSABLE INCOME

Economic:
People in developed countries have higher disposable income and are able to afford more food as they are more affluent. People in less developed countries are facing poverty as they have lower disposable income, thus they are unable to afford sufficient food.

Environmental:
Developed countries have well-developed water supply infrastructure for most areas and people thus have access to safe drinking water. However, less developed countries lack well-developed water supply infrastructure and so people face problems in gaining access to safe drinking water.

WHILE THIS IS TRUE, ACCESS TO POTABLE WATER IS NOT REFLECTED IN THE SOURCE

Abigail and SuKuan

shanyi — 2017-04-26 05:52:37 UTC

[SOURCES 7,9]
Source 7 shows villagers in a remote part of West Bengal, India, collecting drinking water from a hole. This shows that LDCs have a lack of access to safe drinking water which can cause the spread of waterborne diseases, such as cholera and even lead poisoning. The water from the hole can encourage harmful microorganisms to grow and can also provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes, encouraging the spread of mosquito-borne diseases.

comment:
Why isn't water from a hole safe to drink? How do you know it is unsafe?

Source 9 shows temporary houses that are not durable and not properly built. There is also a lack of proper sewage treatment facilities, thus rubbish are thrown into the canal lining the temporary houses outside, polluting the water. The houses also have poor ventilation and overcrowding. Living in these houses often results in poor health and contributes to the high incidence of diseases.

comments:
there is no water
why living in houses w poor ventilation and overcrowding will lead to poor health and contributes to the high incidences of diseases?

Min Yi & Shi Hui

windhealermage — 2017-04-26 05:52:41 UTC

[SOURCE7]
Source 7 shows 2 villagers in a remote part of West Bengal, India, collecting drinking water from a hole. In LDCs such as rural parts of India and Africa, the lack of access to safe drinking water can cause the spread of waterborne diseases such as cholera and even lead poisoning. People can also fall sick from consuming water that is not stored safely. Such water can encourage harmful microorganism to grow and can provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes. The lack of good living conditions meant that there is difficult access to safe water in sufficient amounts at an affordable price. Poor sanitation in LDCs may result from the dumping or leakage of sewage into water bodies which may pollute water bodies and lead to the spread of waterborne diseases. In DCs such as USA, Singapore and Australia, most people have access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation, and there is well-developed water supply infrastructure for most areas.

Good explanation and elaboration.
More examples and evidence needed

Melissa and Gladious

Priscilia — 2017-04-26 05:52:48 UTC

niinadequate food consumption. People in ldcs face health problems such as starvation and malnutrition while people in dcs face health problems such as obesity.

This is because people in ldcs are facing poverty, it limits the purchasing power that people have to afford food and basic healthcare. They are thus malnourished due to the lack of food and thus insufficient nutrition. About 12.7% of the world's population remains below the extreme poverty line, with an income of us$1.90 or less a day therefore they are unable to afford to buy food. Extreme poverty is rare in Dcs as standard of living in DCs is higher than most LDCs. Many people in DCs are affluent as they have an abundant supply of money,property and other material goods due to a higher disposable income. Affluence provides people with greater access to food thus they consume high amounts of meat and other non-staple foods which leads to obesity.
Comments
- Economic factors explained - General trend identified - Healthcare link not clear

Kelly Chen Xi Nicholas

JieYingg_ — 2017-04-26 05:52:49 UTC

Source 2
This source shows that the obesity levels in countries differ. United states have the highest number of percentage of population that are obese with 34% while Japan have the lowest percentage of population with 3%. Among the European countries, United kingdom has the highest percentage of population that are obese with 24.5% as compared with Italy which has lesser percentage of population that are obese with 10%. This shows that the Americans, Mexicans and Canadians consume food that are unhealthy and is of high in fats which leads to a higher obesity rate. While in Japan, the Japanese people make healthier lifestyle choices, such as consuming diet that is less in fats. This leads to a

COMMENTS BY TULIP & SITI:
1. EXPLANATION?
2. HOW DO THEY DIFFER?
3. DIFFERENT BETWEEN DCS AND LDCS (CATEGORIZATION OF THE COUNTRIES)
4. OBESITY IS NOT A HEALTH ISSUE (WHAT DOES OBESITY LEAD TO?)
5.

Preston, King and Bryan

2017-04-26 05:52:57 UTC

Source 10

From the source, we can tell that most of the countries that provide the best healthcare in the world are developed countries.
pecifically, most of the countries in the top 10 placing are members of the European Union, except for Oman, Singapore and Japan.

Explanation
- Increasing affluence in Developed Countries provides people with greater access to food and better quality healthcare services, increasing resistance to diseases and enabling them to deal with diseases more effectively.

Qing He, Jolene, Catherine

isabelleseahzx — 2017-04-26 05:52:58 UTC

[SOURCES 2 AND 3]
In the DCs, there is a higher percentage of obesity compared to LDCs. For example, out of the top 5 countries, 3 of them are DCs, with USA contributing to the highest percentage of 34% being obese. In Source 3, it states "In Somalia, people are dying because they don't have much to eat", whereas "In America, people are dying because they eat too much". Therefore, this shows us that DCs suffer from obesity whereas LDCs suffer from malnutrition. This might be because in DCs, people prefer unhealthy food, leading to obesity. In LDCs, people have lower disposable incomes, hence restricting them from consuming sufficient food, hence leading to malnutrition.

-MY and SH:

[SOURCES 6, 7, 9]
In LDCs, there is no proper sanitation and sewage disposal, and other poor living conditions. The water they consume is polluted or contaminated so they are more prone to water-borne diseases and mosquito-borne diseases. Therefore, they have poor health due to poor living conditions.

-MY and SH: What about DCs? Some rural parts of DCs also do not have proper sanitation and sewage disposal.

[SOURCES 5, 10, 12, 13]
Children living in poverty would have poorer health than others who have access to proper healthcare.

-MY and SH: What about children in DCs but suffer from chronic diseases?

Daniel, Ying Tong, Charlene

2017-04-26 05:54:10 UTC

Source 6
The source shows a girl standing above a body of dirty water. From the source we can tell that in many LDCs people do not have access to safe drinking water and they are also living in environments where diseases can be easily spread. For example, the dirty water can breed mosquitoes which will cause the spread of diseases such as dengue and malaria. They also have no access to proper sanitation as waste cannot be disposed of properly. The lack of access to safe drinking water can cause the spread of waterborne diseases such as cholera as well as lead poisoning. Such water also encourages harmful microorganisms to grow. When one person is infected by a disease, it can be easily spread due to their lack of sufficient living space causing many people to live in close proximity.

Source 9 further shows that the living conditions in LDCs are very poor. The source shows houses with heaps of rubbish right outside the door and are also in close proximity of each other.

rachel xin ying christine

2017-04-26 05:54:55 UTC

social issues:
-In DCs, people smoke more due to the fact that they have higher disposable income. This leads to cardiovascular diseases and various kinds of cancers. (source 4)
1. THE FACT IS THAT SMOKING IS A BIGGER HEALTH ISSUE IN LDCs THAN IN DCs
-If people receive education about healthcare and nutrition, they can make more informed choices on what they consume (LDCs). More children living in LDCs drop out of school compared to children living in DCs as they do not have enough money and resources to provide a good education system for the children, for example, in Sub-Saharan Africa there are 30'6 millions of children who are out of school. (source 12) Children who live in poverty, also, drop out of school as it is not affordable for their family.
-Access to safe drinking water is generally lacking in LDCs due to a poor water distribution system. Drinking unsafe water can cause the spread of waterborne diseases such as cholera and even lead poisoning. It also serves as breeding grounds for mosquitoes. (source 7)

Comments for Jarrod and Benjamin ( By Qiao Rui, Wei Wen, Koi Jun)

khoo_yan_zhi — 2017-05-03 05:39:15 UTC

1. HOW DO YOU ASSUME THAT PEOPLE WITH HIGH DISPOSABLE INCOME WILL SPEND MONEY ON SMOKING?
2. ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT IT LDCs ARE EXPERIENCING LESS FOOD RELATED PROBLEMS?
3. HOW IS AFFLUENT RELATED TO LIFESTYLE CHOICE ?

Comments for Jarrod and Benjamin (By Abigail and Sukuan)

eexiang — 2017-05-03 05:49:01 UTC

-Higher disposable incomes do not necessarily lead to smoking. Smoking is a personal choice and some countries sell cigarettes at a cheap price.
-Why is obesity bad?
-Good comparison.