Tag: health

• Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry

  

  Chocolate reached its peak popularity when it saw itself being celebrated locally, nationally and internationally for its taste; encouraging everyone living in North America and Western Europe to increase their consumption of  chocolate; hovering over the already average consumption of 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate per year in America alone. Accompanying the sale of the…

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  america, child labor, child trafficking, chocolate, cocoa farmers, europe, extortion, global chocolate market, health, ivorian law, malnutrition, poor education, poverty

• Reflection: The relationship between economic growth and the health of societies

  

  The idea of economic growth as central to development or the precursor for health, is fundamentally flawed. For example, globalization and the expansion of technology, especially where there are wage inequalities between different industries, has led to increases of income inequality (Birn et al. 2017). Rather than defaulting to mainstream approaches of disease control and…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  bangladesh, birn, chapter 13, economy, education, finance, health, holistic, international aid, international development, microfinance, outreach, poor, profit, social indicators, society, textbook of global health