DP Geography Questionbank

Define the health measure HALE and explain how it differs from life expectancy.

Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of two other indices (other than HALE) used to measure the health of populations.

“Prevention should always be prioritized over treatment.” Discuss this statement, with reference to specific diseases and communities.

Describe the pattern of life expectancy shown on the map.

Explain three indicators, other than life expectancy, which can be used to measure the health of the population in a country.

Describe the changes in Sub-Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2015.

Identify the region with the greatest relative change in mortality rate between 1990 and 2015.

Outline why HALE is a better indicator of a nation’s health than child mortality.

Explain three health improvements that have led to an increase in life expectancy in many low-income countries in recent years.

Describe the relationship between GDP (gross domestic product) per capita and life expectancy.

Outline one advantage of using HALE as a measure of a population’s health.

Outline two changes in calorie consumption in poor countries from 1970 to 2000.

Outline two differences between calorie consumption in rich countries and poor countries in 2000.

Describe the trends in food aid between 2000 and 2011.

Explain two possible disadvantages of food aid for a community that is currently experiencing food shortages.

(i) Define the term food miles.

(ii) State the fruit or vegetable that ranks sixth in terms of the highest number of food miles.

(iii) Estimate the average (mean) food miles for the fruit and vegetables shown in the graph above.

Suggest one advantage and two disadvantages of using food miles as an indicator of the environmental impacts associated with food production.

To what extent are food availability, malnutrition and diseases of poverty connected with one another?

“Food miles are an excellent indicator of the environmental impact of agriculture.” Discuss this statement.

Examine the strengths and limitations of the energy efficiency ratio as an indicator of sustainable agriculture.

Briefly outline what is meant by the term “food security”.

Outline one way in which the health of a population can be affected by chronic hunger.

To what extent were physical factors responsible for one recent famine?

Examine the impacts of international trade agreements and trade barriers on the availability of food in some countries.

Explain how one environmental factor and one political factor can lead to a decline in food production.

To what extent are food availability, malnutrition and diseases of poverty connected with one another?

State two diseases of poverty.

Describe the distribution of diseases of poverty.

Explain two types of diffusion in relation to the spread of disease.

Explain how the application of two named barriers to limit the spread of disease has reduced child mortality rates.

Referring to areas on the map, describe the spread of the Zika virus between 1947 and 2010.

Explain three geographic impacts at a national scale of one named water-borne or sexually transmitted disease.

Explain how one natural barrier and one political barrier might limit the spread of disease.

Examine the geographic factors responsible for the incidence and transmission of one named disease (vector-borne, water-borne or sexually transmitted).