Research Topic: Globalization and infant mortality.

Research Question: Is globalization beneficial or harmful to infant mortality?

Subquestions

1. Why are infants, around the world, so sick or in poor health?
2. What are the infant mortality rate statistics?
3. Who are most affected by poor health and why?
4. How is globalization increasing health risk factors around the world?
5. How can these problems be resolved?
6. How has globalization been able to provide better health care and services around the world?

Outline

1. Why are infants, around the world, so sick or in poor health?
a. Globalization exposes communities to certain health risks.
b. Lack of vaccines, cures, and poor health care
c. 20 million women usually have illnesses from pregnancy, STD's, and HIV/AIDS
d. overweight/obese
e. infant malnutrition
f. Decrease in public health infrastructure
g. poverty
h. pollution
i. Disease
j. sick mother
k. socioeconomic status

2. What are the infant mortality rate statistics?
a. Russia, 20 deaths/1,000 births
b. United States, 19%
c. 2004 in under developed countries, 54 deaths/1,000 births

3. Who are most effected by poor health and why?
a. Pregnant women
b. Infants, due to mother being sick

4. How is globalization increasing health risk factors around the world?
a. International trade
b. human migration
c. Urban developement


5. How can these problems be resolved?
a. Vaccines
b. more opennes to international trade & investment
c. provide health care info. and services
d. more monitoring of import and export of food & drugs

6. How has globalization been able to provide better health care and services around the world?
a. Established programs like: WHO & UNICEF
b. Technilogical advances in new meds, sanitation, water treatment
c. Implementation of Public Health Policies
* FDA