Essays on Infant Mortality Rates

In preparing for this assignment, a list of all countries of the world by land area was obtained from the CIA website and was sorted in a spreadsheet from countries with the largest land area to countries with the smallest land area. A total of 224 countries were obtained, and after elimination of all countries with a land area smaller than Belgium, a total of 137 countries remained. Data on global infant mortality rates was obtained for each country in the reduced list and was recorded as deaths/1000 live births . To obtain a dissection of these figures in to ...

Community Location

According the population census conducted in 2000, the total population of District 13 is 106, 120. However it has been observed that the population of the region has been on the rise. The people in the district live in different locations. These locations include; the Coney Island the Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Bath Beach, Homecrest and the Sea Gate.

The Coney Island is an urban residential neighborhood located in the Southwestern side of Brooklyn in New York City. The Coney Island is around 4 miles long and half a mile wide. The Coney Island creek that ...

Introduction

The provision of an efficient healthcare system is the responsibility of any progressive government. In order to achieve a functional and efficient healthcare system, the government must mobilise the financial and human resources in a strategic manner. An efficient healthcare system promotes equality, access and coverage of its population. The United States of America and Canada are two countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with two structurally different healthcare systems. There has been an ongoing debate on the suitability of the universal single-payer healthcare system used by most of the OECD members compared to ...

A critical analysis of the different attitudes of mothers towards the immunization of their children in rural and urban area in Nigeria 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background information and justification for the study Child survival beyond the age of five in Nigeria is a great concern in both academic and professional circles with statistics indicating that only 194 out every 1000 children live beyond the age of five. A United Nations study revealed that the Nigeria ranked 15th among the nations with the highest under five mortality rates. High infant mortality rates in Nigeria are attributed to immunizable ...

Several developing economies lack the capacities to take care of the poor population. These countries have inadequate resources to provide for every person in the economy. Such countries are characterized by poor nutrition, high infant mortality rates, high unemployment rates, and poor medical facilities and services among other devastating effects both to children and to women, who form most of the vulnerable population. According to the example that Peter Singer gives about Dora and the poor boy, whom she intend she intends to sell away to organ peddlers, confirming that Dora acted without morals is true because she has ...

In a few short months, I will graduate with a degree in pharmacy. With the increasing demand for pharmacists in healthcare, my options are wide and diverse. In approximation, 62% of all pharmacists serve in community pharmacies. This is significant because they aid in reaching out the services to the hard to reach areas. Other settings where pharmacists work are managed care, pharmaceutical industries, armed forces, hospitals and public health. With my innate need to help those in dire need, I reckon that a career in public health settings and more precisely service in the community is more enticing than in any ...

Abstract

Multilateral organizations, such the International Monetary Fund, play a major role in our society, working in the areas of technical and financial assistance through structural adjustments in developing countries, as well as funding and sector-specific policy guidance. This domain has an inherent dynamism, and must be understood by analyzing the historical trajectory of these organizations and understanding that their actions are guided by the ideology that sustains the society we live in, which is rooted in the capitalist mode of production. This led me to ask the simple question: to what extant has the IMF been a force for good in ...

Introduction:

Losing a loved one is a very painful experience especially when someone is lost through maternal means. As far as culture diversity is concerned, many communities around the world have different expectations when it comes to maternal mortality on whether to lose the baby or the mom. In most communities, they opt for the child to die and the mom to survive while in others, they prefer the baby to survive and lose the mom even though such believers are very minimal around the world. Maternal mortalities of both the mothers and the infants are increasing at a very high level around ...