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Mind Map by Olivia Brooklyn, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Olivia Brooklyn
almost 7 years ago
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Description
Thailand
- Economic change
- 40 years of rapid change
- NIC - Newly Industrialised Country
- Despite economic growth, 42% of people still work
in farming, many as subsistence farmers
- 40 years of rapid change
- Population change
- Population increase has been
brought under control
- 1970 population was
increasing at one of the fastest
rates of any country
- Birth rate of 37 and death rate of
only 10
- Birth rate of 37 and death rate of
only 10
- In under 4 decades dropped, birth rate dropped
by 15% per 1000 and death rate has fallen slightly
- Population increase has been
brought under control
- Cause of change
- Birth rate dropped because
of country's economic growth
and more people are living in
the cities, especially in
Bangkok
- Success of government
- Introducing family
planning methods
- Introducing family
planning methods
- Encouraging the use of condoms
- Birth rate dropped because
of country's economic growth
and more people are living in
the cities, especially in
Bangkok
- Cabbages And Condoms
- Thai business man running national
campaign to help make the use of condoms
acceptable to everyone
- Set up a chain of restaurants called 'Cabbages
And Condoms'
- Condoms given away free after every meal
- Condoms given away free after every meal
- In Thailand even talking talking about contraception was not acceptable
in the past, these ideas are being broken down in order to control
population
- Thai business man running national
campaign to help make the use of condoms
acceptable to everyone
- Stopping HIV / AIDS infection
- Using condoms is key to fight the
spread of HIV / AIDS
- Infection is common because of
the sex industry in Thailand
- Government made it illegal for anyone working in the sex industry to do so without using a condom
- Estimated 1/2 million people
already infected in Thailand
- Using condoms is key to fight the
spread of HIV / AIDS