After you've posted your HC Elsewhere research, highlight unusual findings. After most of us have posted, comment on the highlighted findings. I'm especially interested in what you think about Cincinnati's data.
FYI: I've hidden the countries you didn't chose just to make the spreadsheet more manageable. Also, if you are curious about a particular country, I probably have data from past classes I could post. Just let me know.
My country was Japan. I found several things unusual that I would not have expected had I not completed this research. I was shocked to read that influenza and pneumonia are the number one leading cause of death for them with stroke and coronary artery disease coming in second and third. Flu and pneumonia are so common here in the United States, in fact we often vaccinate against them. I was confused as to how this would be there #1 killer. I researched several other statistics and websites with the same results for the year of 2015. Even in previous years, influenza and pneumonia have always fallen within the top 3.
Another unusual finding was the fact that HIV cases were not listed on the CIA website, or the information was listed as “not reported”. I had to further investigate to find this information but would have expected it to be on their website as a valuable source of information. Then lastly, probably the most unusual finding and disgusting in my opinion, is the popularity of raw horse meat as a source of food. Yuck!
I struggled to find the HIV rates too, I wonder why? Is it relate dot the culture at all? The horse meat thing is bad. I find that many countries like this, with their weird meats freak me out. I would be a vegetarian there for sure!
I wonder if the flu and pneumonia have anything to do with population size and proximity of them to a small island. If they are packed in like sardines on a small island I could see it spreading quickly. But if we have vaccinations for those, why aren't they being utilized?
I actually found many interesting facts about Sweden while doing my research. The most interesting to me was that parents are entitled to 480 days of paid maternity leave when a child is born or adopted. Parents are allocated a total of 480 days per child, which they may decide to take any time until the child is 8 years old. The parents may share these days, although 60 days are allocated specifically to the father. Swedish parents are entitled to receive 80 percent of their wages, although this is capped at a certain level. That to me makes amazing sense. Raising a child is not an easy task. There are many sleepless nights for parents in the first year of a baby’s life. Going into work when running on fumes and caffeine is what many US parents do and it can be unhealthy and in some cases unsafe. If a mother has chosen to breastfeed, which is the healthiest route for a baby, then she will not have to worry about pumping, keeping her supply up and juggling bottles with whomever is watching the child while the mother is at work. In the US we only get 6-12 weeks of maternity leave, that is only at 60-80% of our salary and sometimes is not guaranteed if you are not a full time employee. Sweden is allowing over a year for parents to bond with their child which I’m sure improves the lives of both the parents and the child. Another interesting fact I came across was that Sweden pays students $187/mth to attend high school. Technically it is paid to the parents to help with any expenditures that may arise with school. But in researching it, school is free for the students and lunches are also provided for. Many students receive their money to do with as they like. It is a bit of an incentive to continue past primary grade. I wonder if this is why Sweden has a 99% literacy rate and a very low crime rate. It educates its citizens and they become more productive members of society.
Swedish healthcare: All you need to know. (2013). Retrieved March 10, 2016, from http://www.thelocal.se/20130327/46910 36 Facts about Sweden ←FACTSlides→. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2016, from http://www.factslides.com/s-Sweden#
That is amazing about the maternity leave. It would be helpful to be able to take that off to raise your child. The parents might also be dying to get back to work after! That's a lot of time off at home with your kids without much for yourself. Interestingly, I recently read an article about how Swedish parenting has created a nation of brats. It's written by a psychiatrist who feels Sweden's liberal, absolutely no disciple, policy on parenting, where the kids even decide when hey want to go to bed and can refuse to do so. He said the children are unmanageable and cites high truancy rates, increased anxiety disorders, and declining performance in international educational leagues.
Knowing how exhausting it can be to have a baby 480 days would be welcomed. How could certain places of business survive if they have a lot of young parents with new babies being born all around the same time?
I think that it is very interesting for them getting paid while their children are in high school. I feel that if education is free that it shouldn't be a "reward" that you are making your child go to school. There are not many jobs these days that require a high school education. I feel really strongly that this is not right, same way I don't feel that it is right to give every member or every team a trophy for participation. There are people who worked hard and got to where they are for a reason and there are slackers who just didn't try as hard. I do not feel parents should be paid for that. Sorry if I offended anyone.
When I was in high school we had an exchange student from Sweden. He loved school and told us that they were payed to go. He always stated they were expected to do well in school and find a career. He thought Americans were foolish to spend so much time playing video games and not working on their scholastic careers.
Greece, originally part of The Ottoman Empire, sits amidst The Mediterranean Sea, the Ionian Sea and The Aegean Sea and consists of three main peninsulas and more than 2,000 islands. Its total area is 131,957 square miles, making it slightly smaller than the state of Alabama. It consists of mountainous, rocky terrain surrounded by sea with a climate consists of mild winters with temps ranging from 44-58, and hot, dry summers ranging from 70s-90s.
Greece is a popular tourist spot, with tourism making up 18% of their GDP. I was surprised to find such a high poverty rate in Greece where 44% of their population lives below the poverty rate, in contrast to 14.8% in the United States. Healthcare in Greece is provided through national health insurance, which is provided to residents and their families contributing to the social security system, which provides free or low-cost healthcare, including free hospitalization, lab services, maternity care, dental care, vision care, medical appliances/ equipment and transportation. The healthcare system is a mixed system with various social insurance funds, such as public insurance funds and the private insurance, co-existing with the National Health System. Emergency care is provided free of charge in public hospitals to anyone, regardless of nationality. There are supplemental programs for the unemployed. They have limited hospitals and health care facilities which can lead to long waits to see physicians, specialists, etc. in non-emergency situations. The average cost of annual health care per person is $2,146 versus $8,233 in the US. Workers in Greece pay 10% of their salaries to taxes, and 10% to The National Health System.
The life expectancy in ancient Greece was in the 36 for women and 45 for men. Greece now has what is considered to be a long life expectancy at 80.4 years, in contrast to the US at 78.8 years and Cincinnati at 76 years. It is thought to be, in part, due to their diets rich in healthy food grown on the islands. The leading causes of death, in order, are: Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke then Lung Cancers. Neonatal mortality is high at 4.7 deaths/ 1000 live births, but falls greatly bellows Cincinnati’s infant mortality rate of 12.4/ 1000 live births. Maternal death rate is low at 3 deaths/ 100,000 live births. I had great difficulty finding HIV rates for Greece on the statistics pages. The data was absent or not reported on most sites. For a country of approximately 11 million, Greece’s most recently reported HIV rate in 2014 was 13,622. Greece has one of the lowest HIV rates in the world. While this is low compared to the US’s over 1.2 million, 12.8%, the HIV rate in Greece has skyrocketed over 65% since 2010 due to IV drug use and illegal prostitution. Prostitution is legal in brothels in Greece, where health checks are strictly enforced.
There are many interesting facts about Greece. In the 1950s, the literacy rate in Greece was only 30%, it is now 99.7%, higher than the US’s 86%. When young men come of age in Greece, they are required to serve in the military for twelve to eighteen months. Voting is required by law for everyone 18 and older. An adult Greek citizen cannot decide they do not want to vote, it’s breaking the law if they don’t vote. The Greek Orthodox Church forbids cremation, so people are always buried. Five years after burial, the body is exhumed and the bones are washed with wine and placed in an ossuary. This is done due to the shortage of land in cemeteries. Instead of celebrating one’s birthday in Greece, instead they celebrate the “name day” of the saint that bears their name.
www.cia.gov- The World Factbook www.unaids.com www.worldlifeexpectancy.com www.money.cnn.com data.worldbank.com http://www.allianzworldwidecare.com/healthcare-in-greece Centers for disease control. (2016). Trends in cause of death. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/01death.pdf http://facts.randomhistory.com/interesting-facts-about-greece.html
I'm not sure how I feel about men being forced to serve in the military or voting being required by law. I guess I could see the positives and the negatives to those requirements.
Great information about Greece. I do believe that the diet they are used to, healthy food grown there is related to their long life expectancy. With that being said, I'm surprised that heart disease is the number one killer.
Erin, I kinda though that too, but I guess they need those resources. It's also like they are making them earn their keep. I think having to vote cold be a good thing. We have that priviledge and should exercise it.
I don't know that I could be about the being made to serve in the military and or to vote. I think that those are "rights". That is not something that should be made. Because there are a lot of things that were that way and we have come this far in the US to not have those things demanded of us. I forget how privileged we are to live in a type of country like this.
I like the thought of all men having to serve one year in the military. Especially when so many of are young males have no direction in their lives. Greece has been in the news quite a bit with them filing for bankruptcy. There average work week is 42 hours a week. Interesting that the news stated they work shorter hours than us. I found no literature to support that.
The country I chose was the United Kingdom. The UK has a National Health Service. Every citizen has healthcare available to them. I had a rare opportunity to live in England in the early 1990's. They had the National Health Service then. When I was living there, it was reported on the news quite often, people had very long waiting periods for specialist. For example, if you went to your GP and it was thought you had a mass on your lung, you had to wait to get and xray. After the xray, you had to wait to get back into see your GP. Then, if the GP was suspicious of the mass, you had to see an oncologist. This might take 6 to 8 months. My thoughts are, if it is lung cancer, you could be dead in 6 to 8 months without treatments. Now, I'm not sure if things have changed since 1990, I'm sure there have been improvements. Also, if you can afford it, there is private insurance available. There are a lot of similarities with the US, however, there is the Queen, who is the Head of State and she can't be voted out. LOL
Very interesting about the long wait to just get to your doctor and then to a specialist. Maybe many people may come to America to get cancer treatment?
My country was America I was looking forward to find out what some of the vital stats were in our country. I feel like the best stat was our life expectancy which it averages at 78.8 years which is a great sign and with all the advancements we are having in modern medicine that number should creep up slowly. One number that shocked me was our literacy rate which was 86% I just felt today in America I just don't think that there are people out there that can't read. Our top 3 causes of death which doesn't surprise me at all are Heart disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory disease. The one surprising stat I found is that there are only 2 African-American billionaires in American which is Oprah and Michael Jordan.
I was really surprised at our literacy rates compared to others. I guess we don't want to think of ours being low but j didn't know they were that low.
While doing some research for this project I found a lot of very interesting things as I was searching through info. It was also neat to see all the data compared to each other. I decided to do China, and as I was looking for some of the topics, there was a lot of interesting facts and info that I found. I read that China actually has a very large number of hospitals. Higher than a lot of other countries. I found that most people prefer to see clinics and urgent care type facilities. Although western medicine is used slot of treatment focus on traditional Chinese medicine. These could be factors for money spent on healthcare is significantly lower than other countries. They have made a large amount of changes in their healthcare and healthcare systems. They implements a healthcare reform after the 80's. They say it's still not generous coverage but work every year to extent that. One very interesting thing I found was on the HIV cases. The appear to be very low at 0.1%. Taking in China's size and the travels that occurs I was expecting higher numbers. I layer read that the had bans on travels for people with certain infections and diseases. These have changed and eased bans since 2010 but was still surprising they had such strict bans.
After learning about Costa Rica I am ready to move there. They are considered to have the best healthcare in Latin America. The universal healthcare coverage is a cost of 130 dollars a month if they are above poverty. They have three internationally accredited hospitals. The warm climate and beautiful destinations allows for medical tourism. They have a long life expectancy due to health living, preventive medicine, and healthy food choices. They do suffer from coronary disease, strokes, and lung cancer as the three most causes of death. Most of the population is from European or mestizo ethnicity. Very few have their roots from indigenous ancestry. They are a popular destination due to there environment and coast line. They are home to 52 species of hummingbirds. There most common animals are monkeys and bats. 25 percent of the country is protected parks and reserves. Costa Rica is the same size as Lake Michigan and has a population of 4.1 million people. Abortion is illegal unless the woman has been raped, or the baby will have medical conditions that would not allow it to survive. There president is elected every four years by popular vote. Costa Rica is the longest-standing democracy in Central America. They have no standing army to defend them. San Jose is the capital with 2 million of the population living there. There literacy rate is 96 percent. For those who belong to poor communities with no schools, they teach classes over a national radio station.
Let me know which hospital and I'm there! I am sure they have babies that need birthing there. It sounds wonderful. I think the classes over national radio is amazing. That would solve potential transportation issues or if poverty is preventing them from spending all day in school, that is a great and cheap alternative.
I enjoyed learning about Australia. I had a friend that went there for 3 months, quit his job and just traveled to different hostels and really got an understanding of how things work over there. He was on different farms some with little access to any health care at all and he said that they might have been more healthy than all of us just because of the way of life over there. Not having access over there in some places really might have benefited them. I also did not know that Australia was SOO large with no that many population. (seems like i need a move in my life haha) But it definitely was interesting to learn about different things and be able to talk to someone who was over there for so long first hand about his experiences.
FYI: I've hidden the countries you didn't chose just to make the spreadsheet more manageable. Also, if you are curious about a particular country, I probably have data from past classes I could post. Just let me know.
ReplyDeleteMy country was Japan. I found several things unusual that I would not have expected had I not completed this research. I was shocked to read that influenza and pneumonia are the number one leading cause of death for them with stroke and coronary artery disease coming in second and third. Flu and pneumonia are so common here in the United States, in fact we often vaccinate against them. I was confused as to how this would be there #1 killer. I researched several other statistics and websites with the same results for the year of 2015. Even in previous years, influenza and pneumonia have always fallen within the top 3.
ReplyDeleteAnother unusual finding was the fact that HIV cases were not listed on the CIA website, or the information was listed as “not reported”. I had to further investigate to find this information but would have expected it to be on their website as a valuable source of information. Then lastly, probably the most unusual finding and disgusting in my opinion, is the popularity of raw horse meat as a source of food. Yuck!
I struggled to find the HIV rates too, I wonder why? Is it relate dot the culture at all? The horse meat thing is bad. I find that many countries like this, with their weird meats freak me out. I would be a vegetarian there for sure!
DeleteWow the Flu and Pneumonia may not even be in the top 10 for America. That's so odd especially since they can be prevented.
DeleteI wonder if the flu and pneumonia have anything to do with population size and proximity of them to a small island. If they are packed in like sardines on a small island I could see it spreading quickly. But if we have vaccinations for those, why aren't they being utilized?
DeleteI actually found many interesting facts about Sweden while doing my research. The most interesting to me was that parents are entitled to 480 days of paid maternity leave when a child is born or adopted. Parents are allocated a total of 480 days per child, which they may decide to take any time until the child is 8 years old. The parents may share these days, although 60 days are allocated specifically to the father. Swedish parents are entitled to receive 80 percent of their wages, although this is capped at a certain level. That to me makes amazing sense. Raising a child is not an easy task. There are many sleepless nights for parents in the first year of a baby’s life. Going into work when running on fumes and caffeine is what many US parents do and it can be unhealthy and in some cases unsafe. If a mother has chosen to breastfeed, which is the healthiest route for a baby, then she will not have to worry about pumping, keeping her supply up and juggling bottles with whomever is watching the child while the mother is at work. In the US we only get 6-12 weeks of maternity leave, that is only at 60-80% of our salary and sometimes is not guaranteed if you are not a full time employee. Sweden is allowing over a year for parents to bond with their child which I’m sure improves the lives of both the parents and the child.
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting fact I came across was that Sweden pays students $187/mth to attend high school. Technically it is paid to the parents to help with any expenditures that may arise with school. But in researching it, school is free for the students and lunches are also provided for. Many students receive their money to do with as they like. It is a bit of an incentive to continue past primary grade. I wonder if this is why Sweden has a 99% literacy rate and a very low crime rate. It educates its citizens and they become more productive members of society.
Swedish healthcare: All you need to know. (2013). Retrieved March 10, 2016, from http://www.thelocal.se/20130327/46910
36 Facts about Sweden ←FACTSlides→. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2016, from http://www.factslides.com/s-Sweden#
480 days of paid maternity leave?! That's amazing!
DeleteThat is amazing about the maternity leave. It would be helpful to be able to take that off to raise your child. The parents might also be dying to get back to work after! That's a lot of time off at home with your kids without much for yourself.
DeleteInterestingly, I recently read an article about how Swedish parenting has created a nation of brats. It's written by a psychiatrist who feels Sweden's liberal, absolutely no disciple, policy on parenting, where the kids even decide when hey want to go to bed and can refuse to do so. He said the children are unmanageable and cites high truancy rates, increased anxiety disorders, and declining performance in international educational leagues.
Knowing how exhausting it can be to have a baby 480 days would be welcomed. How could certain places of business survive if they have a lot of young parents with new babies being born all around the same time?
DeleteWow that's crazy, 480 days! I also think it's interesting that they get paid for their children attending high school.
DeleteI think that it is very interesting for them getting paid while their children are in high school. I feel that if education is free that it shouldn't be a "reward" that you are making your child go to school. There are not many jobs these days that require a high school education. I feel really strongly that this is not right, same way I don't feel that it is right to give every member or every team a trophy for participation. There are people who worked hard and got to where they are for a reason and there are slackers who just didn't try as hard. I do not feel parents should be paid for that.
DeleteSorry if I offended anyone.
When I was in high school we had an exchange student from Sweden. He loved school and told us that they were payed to go. He always stated they were expected to do well in school and find a career. He thought Americans were foolish to spend so much time playing video games and not working on their scholastic careers.
DeleteGreece, originally part of The Ottoman Empire, sits amidst The Mediterranean Sea, the Ionian Sea and The Aegean Sea and consists of three main peninsulas and more than 2,000 islands. Its total area is 131,957 square miles, making it slightly smaller than the state of Alabama. It consists of mountainous, rocky terrain surrounded by sea with a climate consists of mild winters with temps ranging from 44-58, and hot, dry summers ranging from 70s-90s.
ReplyDeleteGreece is a popular tourist spot, with tourism making up 18% of their GDP. I was surprised to find such a high poverty rate in Greece where 44% of their population lives below the poverty rate, in contrast to 14.8% in the United States. Healthcare in Greece is provided through national health insurance, which is provided to residents and their families contributing to the social security system, which provides free or low-cost healthcare, including free hospitalization, lab services, maternity care, dental care, vision care, medical appliances/ equipment and transportation. The healthcare system is a mixed system with various social insurance funds, such as public insurance funds and the private insurance, co-existing with the National Health System. Emergency care is provided free of charge in public hospitals to anyone, regardless of nationality. There are supplemental programs for the unemployed. They have limited hospitals and health care facilities which can lead to long waits to see physicians, specialists, etc. in non-emergency situations. The average cost of annual health care per person is $2,146 versus $8,233 in the US. Workers in Greece pay 10% of their salaries to taxes, and 10% to The National Health System.
The life expectancy in ancient Greece was in the 36 for women and 45 for men. Greece now has what is considered to be a long life expectancy at 80.4 years, in contrast to the US at 78.8 years and Cincinnati at 76 years. It is thought to be, in part, due to their diets rich in healthy food grown on the islands. The leading causes of death, in order, are: Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke then Lung Cancers. Neonatal mortality is high at 4.7 deaths/ 1000 live births, but falls greatly bellows Cincinnati’s infant mortality rate of 12.4/ 1000 live births. Maternal death rate is low at 3 deaths/ 100,000 live births. I had great difficulty finding HIV rates for Greece on the statistics pages. The data was absent or not reported on most sites. For a country of approximately 11 million, Greece’s most recently reported HIV rate in 2014 was 13,622. Greece has one of the lowest HIV rates in the world. While this is low compared to the US’s over 1.2 million, 12.8%, the HIV rate in Greece has skyrocketed over 65% since 2010 due to IV drug use and illegal prostitution. Prostitution is legal in brothels in Greece, where health checks are strictly enforced.
There are many interesting facts about Greece. In the 1950s, the literacy rate in Greece was only 30%, it is now 99.7%, higher than the US’s 86%. When young men come of age in Greece, they are required to serve in the military for twelve to eighteen months. Voting is required by law for everyone 18 and older. An adult Greek citizen cannot decide they do not want to vote, it’s breaking the law if they don’t vote. The Greek Orthodox Church forbids cremation, so people are always buried. Five years after burial, the body is exhumed and the bones are washed with wine and placed in an ossuary. This is done due to the shortage of land in cemeteries. Instead of celebrating one’s birthday in Greece, instead they celebrate the “name day” of the saint that bears their name.
www.cia.gov- The World Factbook
www.unaids.com
www.worldlifeexpectancy.com
www.money.cnn.com
data.worldbank.com
http://www.allianzworldwidecare.com/healthcare-in-greece
Centers for disease control. (2016). Trends in cause of death. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/01death.pdf
http://facts.randomhistory.com/interesting-facts-about-greece.html
I'm not sure how I feel about men being forced to serve in the military or voting being required by law. I guess I could see the positives and the negatives to those requirements.
DeleteGreat information about Greece. I do believe that the diet they are used to, healthy food grown there is related to their long life expectancy. With that being said, I'm surprised that heart disease is the number one killer.
DeleteErin, I kinda though that too, but I guess they need those resources. It's also like they are making them earn their keep. I think having to vote cold be a good thing. We have that priviledge and should exercise it.
DeleteGloria, I thought the same thing about the heart disease. There wasn't much about why on that.
DeleteI don't know that I could be about the being made to serve in the military and or to vote. I think that those are "rights". That is not something that should be made. Because there are a lot of things that were that way and we have come this far in the US to not have those things demanded of us. I forget how privileged we are to live in a type of country like this.
DeleteI like the thought of all men having to serve one year in the military. Especially when so many of are young males have no direction in their lives. Greece has been in the news quite a bit with them filing for bankruptcy. There average work week is 42 hours a week. Interesting that the news stated they work shorter hours than us. I found no literature to support that.
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ReplyDeleteThe country I chose was the United Kingdom. The UK has a National Health Service. Every citizen has healthcare available to them. I had a rare opportunity to live in England in the early 1990's. They had the National Health Service then. When I was living there, it was reported on the news quite often, people had very long waiting periods for specialist. For example, if you went to your GP and it was thought you had a mass on your lung, you had to wait to get and xray. After the xray, you had to wait to get back into see your GP. Then, if the GP was suspicious of the mass, you had to see an oncologist. This might take 6 to 8 months. My thoughts are, if it is lung cancer, you could be dead in 6 to 8 months without treatments. Now, I'm not sure if things have changed since 1990, I'm sure there have been improvements. Also, if you can afford it, there is private insurance available. There are a lot of similarities with the US, however, there is the Queen, who is the Head of State and she can't be voted out. LOL
ReplyDeletewhat a cool opportunity to experience this kind of healthcare. That seems like a crazy long time to wait, I cannot imagine the anxiety.
DeleteVery interesting about the long wait to just get to your doctor and then to a specialist. Maybe many people may come to America to get cancer treatment?
ReplyDeleteMy country was America I was looking forward to find out what some of the vital stats were in our country. I feel like the best stat was our life expectancy which it averages at 78.8 years which is a great sign and with all the advancements we are having in modern medicine that number should creep up slowly. One number that shocked me was our literacy rate which was 86% I just felt today in America I just don't think that there are people out there that can't read. Our top 3 causes of death which doesn't surprise me at all are Heart disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory disease. The one surprising stat I found is that there are only 2 African-American billionaires in American which is Oprah and Michael Jordan.
ReplyDeleteI was really surprised at our literacy rates compared to others. I guess we don't want to think of ours being low but j didn't know they were that low.
DeleteI am actually shocked about the African American billionaires, I would think that there would be more. Interesting fact!
DeleteWhile doing some research for this project I found a lot of very interesting things as I was searching through info. It was also neat to see all the data compared to each other. I decided to do China, and as I was looking for some of the topics, there was a lot of interesting facts and info that I found. I read that China actually has a very large number of hospitals. Higher than a lot of other countries. I found that most people prefer to see clinics and urgent care type facilities. Although western medicine is used slot of treatment focus on traditional Chinese medicine. These could be factors for money spent on healthcare is significantly lower than other countries. They have made a large amount of changes in their healthcare and healthcare systems. They implements a healthcare reform after the 80's. They say it's still not generous coverage but work every year to extent that.
ReplyDeleteOne very interesting thing I found was on the HIV cases. The appear to be very low at 0.1%. Taking in China's size and the travels that occurs I was expecting higher numbers. I layer read that the had bans on travels for people with certain infections and diseases. These have changed and eased bans since 2010 but was still surprising they had such strict bans.
After learning about Costa Rica I am ready to move there. They are considered to have the best healthcare in Latin America. The universal healthcare coverage is a cost of 130 dollars a month if they are above poverty. They have three internationally accredited hospitals. The warm climate and beautiful destinations allows for medical tourism.
ReplyDeleteThey have a long life expectancy due to health living, preventive medicine, and healthy food choices. They do suffer from coronary disease, strokes, and lung cancer as the three most causes of death. Most of the population is from European or mestizo ethnicity. Very few have their roots from indigenous ancestry.
They are a popular destination due to there environment and coast line. They are home to 52 species of hummingbirds. There most common animals are monkeys and bats. 25 percent of the country is protected parks and reserves. Costa Rica is the same size as Lake Michigan and has a population of 4.1 million people. Abortion is illegal unless the woman has been raped, or the baby will have medical conditions that would not allow it to survive.
There president is elected every four years by popular vote. Costa Rica is the longest-standing democracy in Central America. They have no standing army to defend them. San Jose is the capital with 2 million of the population living there. There literacy rate is 96 percent. For those who belong to poor communities with no schools, they teach classes over a national radio station.
Let me know which hospital and I'm there! I am sure they have babies that need birthing there. It sounds wonderful. I think the classes over national radio is amazing. That would solve potential transportation issues or if poverty is preventing them from spending all day in school, that is a great and cheap alternative.
DeleteI enjoyed learning about Australia. I had a friend that went there for 3 months, quit his job and just traveled to different hostels and really got an understanding of how things work over there. He was on different farms some with little access to any health care at all and he said that they might have been more healthy than all of us just because of the way of life over there. Not having access over there in some places really might have benefited them. I also did not know that Australia was SOO large with no that many population. (seems like i need a move in my life haha) But it definitely was interesting to learn about different things and be able to talk to someone who was over there for so long first hand about his experiences.
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