Applying the Sociological Imagination

This chapter highlights the inequalities in U.S. health care and health care around the world. For this activity, compare the United States to two other countries—one from the Global North and one from the Global South—based on their health care spending and health outcomes (such as life expectancy and infant mortality). Use the Internet to locate data from the World Health Organization. What do the data suggest about health and health care in each of the countries? How is this reflective of global stratification? How could globalization be used to help change the outcomes in each of these countries?