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Visit the website – http://www.gapminder.org/

Find the section on tools, click the link ‘play with the data’ and then choose the following three countries to compare:

 Australia

 Cuba

 The Democratic Republic of Congo

Then go back in time to explore the trends in life expectancy and income patterns across these three countries.

1 Describe the different trends between income and life expectancy for all three countries and why this is the case.

2 Think about what might influence these trends and list possible factors.

In the next section we begin to analyse the nature of specific health threats.

Table 2.1 Changing patterns of disease, illness and health

Notes

1 Office of Health Economics, http://www.ohe.org/page/knowledge/schools/appendix/life_expectancy.cfm

2 World Bank Indicators

3 Hicks & Allen, 1999

4 United Nations Statistics Division

5 World Health Organization