Life expectancy
Life expectancy is used to evaluate a country’s health care system and living environment. It is calculated by using the sum of the population’s age to divide by population. Life expectancy at birth simply means how long the newborn is expected to live under the current conditions of each country. A life expectancy of 50 years or less is considered low and anything over 75 years would be considerably high.
The life expectancy of
Australia(82) is one of the highest around the world and is the highest in the sample countries. All Australians are subsidized by a high-quality health care system that is funded by income tax. The government encourages its people to purchase private insurance by giving rebates to Low- to middle-income individuals and penalize high-income individuals with private insurance. However, the aboriginal population is still experiencing a higher infant mortality rate and lower life expectancy than the rest of the population and the government should extent their policies to include the aboriginal people.
Cuba is known to be having excellent health services and the best doctors in the …show more content…
Cuba too, has a very high life expectancy of 79, among the highest in Latin America. In a country with the size of Pennsylvania, U.S. there are around three hundred hospitals and similar number of clinics. Many of the clinics perform its own specialities such as maternal care, or infant care. Like Canada, there are family doctors assigned to each community. There are more than 20 medical schools and other institutions to train health care workers. Nonetheless, since July 2012, two outbreaks of cholera, a disease caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae, took place in Cuba. The Cuban government should be investigating on the water sources and provide methods of preventions (such as vaccinations) to its
Life expectancy is used to evaluate a country’s health care system and living environment. It is calculated by using the sum of the population’s age to divide by population. Life expectancy at birth simply means how long the newborn is expected to live under the current conditions of each country. A life expectancy of 50 years or less is considered low and anything over 75 years would be considerably high.
The life expectancy of
Australia(82) is one of the highest around the world and is the highest in the sample countries. All Australians are subsidized by a high-quality health care system that is funded by income tax. The government encourages its people to purchase private insurance by giving rebates to Low- to middle-income individuals and penalize high-income individuals with private insurance. However, the aboriginal population is still experiencing a higher infant mortality rate and lower life expectancy than the rest of the population and the government should extent their policies to include the aboriginal people.
Cuba is known to be having excellent health services and the best doctors in the …show more content…
Cuba too, has a very high life expectancy of 79, among the highest in Latin America. In a country with the size of Pennsylvania, U.S. there are around three hundred hospitals and similar number of clinics. Many of the clinics perform its own specialities such as maternal care, or infant care. Like Canada, there are family doctors assigned to each community. There are more than 20 medical schools and other institutions to train health care workers. Nonetheless, since July 2012, two outbreaks of cholera, a disease caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae, took place in Cuba. The Cuban government should be investigating on the water sources and provide methods of preventions (such as vaccinations) to its