Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Millennium Development Goals, Health Promotion, Debt Crisis
16 Sep 2016
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International health is focusing on canada and how they are involved in other places. Global health is a two way street including international health but taking it further. Debt crisis for a while money was cheep to borrow and there was a lot of investment and borrowing by global south countries. Then the debt level of countries went way up in places like mexico, argentina, lybia, etc. the countries found themselves in situations where they were at risk of defaulting because they couldn"t service their debt. Structural adjustment response to the debt crisis strategy used by the imf and world bank. They said they would give them a bunch of money to help them keep their economy afloat but they could only have it if they agreed to certain conditions. These meant they had to organize their economy in a certain way.
