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Writing Prompt 1
Table 1: Clinical
United States (High Income Country)
Somalia (Low Income Country)
High life expectancy.
Low life expectancy.
Low mortality rate.
High mortality rate.
Low infant mortality rate.
High infant mortality rate.
Low adult mortality rate.
High adult mortality rate.
Cause-specific morbidity and mortality (low mortality rate due to communicable, non-communicable, and injury). Cause-specific morbidity and mortality (high mortality rate due to communicable, non-communicable, and injury). Low rate of infectious diseases (Cholera, Malaria, TB).
High rate of infectious diseases (Cholera, Malaria, TB).
High health service coverage.
Low health coverage.
Low risk factors.
High risk factors.
High availability of health systems as regards to physicians, nurses, and hospital beds per 10,000 people. Low availability of health systems as regards to physicians, nurses, and hospital beds per 10,000 people. Median availability of generic medicines in public and private sectors. Median availability of generic medicines in public and private sectors. Median consumer price ration of generic medicines in public and private sectors. Median consumer price ration of generic medicines in public and private sectors. Median age of population = 40 years.
Median age of population = 17.5 years.
Median age among adults = 55 years.
Median age among adults = 30 years.
Low literacy level.
High literacy level.
High gross national income per capita of $50, 120.
Low gross national income per capita of $150.
Little part of population living on $1 and below a day.
Large part of population living on $1 and below a day.
Table 2: Sources
Expected years of life at birth.
Categories of national health expenditure.
80 years in the United States and 51.19 years in Somalia.
$2.7 trillion or $9,000 per person in the United States and $2 per person in Somalia.
Role of the Government vs. Private Sector i...