Recent studies on human development have indicated a positive correlation between women’s level of education and international development. Considering the fact that international development is an organization that is concerned about social and economic development in marginal areas, people including women and children, researchers have attempted to discover the factors leading to the difference in development rates (Frøen, Staines, Vrijheid, Casas, Delnord, Friberg & Zeitlin, 2016). Women’s education stood out to be one of the major factors contributing to the socio-economic difference. A section of economists concluded that investing in girl child education is a critical undertaking that should be given priority in society. Women, children and adolescents are very important to the development of our community, and they can be very productive when nurtured and educated.
Women’s education is beneficial not only to individuals but also to their countries (Frøen, Staines, Vrijheid, Casas, Delnord, Friberg & Zeitlin, 2016). It has been established that countries and even individuals that have invested in the education of women and girl children have benefited more. The impacts of women and low education levels are so serious and result in low economic growth. Without education, most women will be dependent on the state or on other people. The implication is that illiterate women will negatively contribute to the economy of a nation. (Frøen et al. 2016). Overall, educating women is important to society and the nation as a whole since educated women positively contribute to the development of the economy.
In the recent past, various authors and human rights activists have come up with ideas elaborating on the prominence of women’s health and well-being around the globe. This has made governments in the past take steps to improve women’s health in conformation with certain key international summit commitments (Cook et al., 2017). There are steps to reducing maternal mortality, which hastened the unveiling of the UN’s Global Strategy for both children and women’s health in 2010. This has led to an increase in maternal healthcare and family planning in many countries (WHO & Mathers, 2017). Also, there has been progress on major determinants of a woman’s health. Interestingly, reports show that there are increased school enrolment rates of girls and women’s political participation recently. However, there are some challenges facing women’s health, mostly in low-resource settings where women are discriminated against based on their sex and ethnicity, which disadvantages their health even more.
Statistics show that the mortality rate for males was much higher than for females, with unintentional injuries being the leading cause of their deaths. Both racial and ethnic disparities also brought some differences, with black adolescents having a higher mortality rate as compared to whites. Most of the deaths of blacks were due to homicide compared to whites, whose main cause was unintentional injuries (Temmerman, Khosla, Bhutta, & Bustreo, 2015). Due to the mortality and morbidity rates, several countermeasures are in place to reduce them. For injuries, the use of protective gear like bicycle helmets, car seats, stair gates, and seat belts is consistently used whenever necessary to reduce the injury risk. Legislation to ensure helmets and seat belts are properly used will help to reinforce this measure (Temmerman, Khosla, Bhutta, & Bustreo, 2015). A social environment promoting safety would help reduce accidents. Counselling and social services for students can reduce suicide and even homicides. Rehabilitation of drug addicts would also act as a countermeasure to the drug addicts.
In summary, women, children and adolescents are very important parts of the development of society, even though they are prone to death when exposed to certain conditions. They, therefore, need good care. In particular, children and adolescents need parental guidance, which is necessary to ensure they remain part of society since they are the future of every nation, both economically and socially, across the world.
References
Frøen, J. F., Staines, A., Vrijheid, M., Casas, M., Delnord, M., Friberg, I. K., … & Zeitlin, J. (2016). Invisibility: The Health Information gaps affecting women, children and adolescents in Europe: Frederik Frøen. The European Journal of Public Health, 26(suppl_1), ckw168-037.
Cook, A., Spinazzola, J., Ford, J., Lanktree, C., Blaustein, M., Cloitre, M., … & Mallah, K. (2017). Complex trauma in children and adolescents. Psychiatric Annals, 35(5), 390-398.
WHO, U., & Mathers, C. (2017). Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030). The organization, 2016(9).
Temmerman, M., Khosla, R., Bhutta, Z. A., & Bustreo, F. (2015). Towards a new global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health. bmj, 351, h4414.
