Has the World Become a Better Place?
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About this Flash presentationA presentation showing fertility rate and child mortality of all countries 1962-2003. Developed in collaboration with Aktuellt at the Swedish Public Service broadcaster - Sveriges Television (SVT) . Produced 2005. |
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Because child mortality rates define whether or not the world is a better place.
I’d say not watching 2 of your kids die on average qualifys for improvement. What kind of comment is that?
Correlation does not imply causation.
get over it jneb, it defines whether the world is a better place for children.
i agree with Jneb, child mortality doesn’t directly relate to the world being a better place, just that technology and medicine are improving. and possibly care for infants in developing countries too.
Absolutely agree with Jneb.
A reduction in any death definitely indicates improvement in and of itself, magnitude notwithstanding.
Since when is Arab States a continent and Australia isn’t one?
Isn’t it just simply as women have fewer babies, the mortality rate also declines? Isn’t this just a linear relationship? Wow - eye opening
dutch bhag, no, you are mistaken.
You are confusing a “linear” decline with a percent change. Fewer born does not reduce the percentage of deaths, only the absolute number of children that die in that family.
If a woman has 10 kids and 2 die, that’s a 20% child mortality. She can have 5 kids and 1 dies and it is still 20%. What the statistics clearly show is the number of children born AND the percentage of them that die as children (from all causes) also declines. Having fewer children in parts of Africa, for instance, does not lessen the threat of malaria. Better education and health care (2 aspects of appropriate development) do lessen the threat.
>Because child mortality rates define whether or not the world is a better place.
It’s a better place for sure and for that, by the way many other cancers are here!
Dear Jneb
The internet is a very interesting way to comunicate, although when one is using the writen word it has it’s limitations. Grammer and spelling are very important to the online “chatter”. It is also important to recognize that your keen sense of sarcasm may not quite come across when we cannot hear the tone and inflection in your voice. Perhaps what you were trying to say is as follows: I do not believe that decreasing the number of children dying in one’s country represents the betterment of said country.
If this is the case then i would say that I cannot agree with you less.
Child mortality rate is perhaps the best way to represent over-all health of a people, although i would love to see other examples.
It doesn’t account for abortion, which I think is a modern drama
PLEASE for Mac!