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These scenarios are in complete contrast with some of the countries of poor health care system. One of these countries is Nigeria which has been suffering from a stagnant health care system. Its people either have limited access to health care or none at all. Many blame this problem to the prevalence of fake drugs, AIDS epidemic and the unhealthy lifestyles of the people while others point at the lack of health policy as the culprit.

The residents of Africa are suffering from preventable, treatable, and fatal diseases everyday at a higher rate compared to developed countries. The healthcare crisis in Africa is the primary cause of all these deaths, and includes inefficient healthcare systems. Consequently, African's inefficient healthcare systems results in poor delivery of care and a shortage of health professionals. The healthcare crisis in Africa is a current issue impacting the lives of many African's who don't have the same access to resources as developed countries such as the United States. These resources can save the lives of many African's dying of preventable and curable disease, and understanding why the African continent has little access to them

It is one thing to be aware of a health-care disparity; it is another to experience it personally. Instead of just seeing numbers on paper, or hearing startling stories over the phone, you are living a frightening reality. I went to Nigeria during the winter of 2010-2011. It was my

That is great news to hear for any nation that has struggled for so long like Nigeria has.

The Nigerian economy has quite the surplus of natural resources they offer the potential for economic growth. “Crude oil accounted for over 95% of exports and over 65% of government revenue in 2004;” Nigeria is number eight in the world's exporter for oil. But agriculture still is a big part in the basic economic activity for the Nigerians.

Following the end of a decade-long Civil War in 2002, the West African country of the Republic of Sierra Leone began a period of rebuilding, which has only been slowed by the recent Ebola epidemic. The total population of Sierra Leone hovers around 6,453,000, with about 1,004,000 of these children under five years old. The majority population is poor, with a GDP per capita at 1,600 USD, which ranks them in place 214 when compared globally. According to a 2004 estimate, 70.2% of the population is below the poverty line. Although Sierra Leone as country is fairly resource-rich, with resources including mining for diamonds and bauxite, “nearly half of the working-age population engages in subsistence agriculture. ” High rates of poverty can place a significant burden on the health of a country. In the following situation brief, topics including burden of disease, key determinants of health, and analysis of equity will be discussed in order to assess the state of health in Sierra Leone.

Child Mortality: According to Unicef, Nigeria loses about 2,300 under five-year-olds and 145 women of childbearing age every single day and this makes Nigeria the second largest contributor to under-five and maternal mortality rate” (Unicef). What people tend to forget is that this is an effect of gender inequality, gender inequality decreases maternal health and can harm children both the unborn and born kids. Gender inequality increases the incidence of low birth and malnourished kids and this causes the death of kids before the age of five. If these women were educated or at least taken a better hospital and not depending on their village herbs and all those medicines, then the rate of child mortality will be decreased in Nigeria. This is also a part of the UN millennium development goals, so as to reduce the rate of child mortality and help this women learn more about how to take care of themselves since they were never educated because they are “Women”.

Nigeria is as often as possible implied as the "Giant of Africa", inferable from its inconceivable people and economy. With around 184 million occupants, Nigeria is the most jammed country in Africa and the seventh most swarmed country on the planet. Nigeria has one of the greatest masses of youth on the planet.

There are many barriers to good population health in Africa. In a report on public health in Africa published in 2009, Jennifer G. Cooke, the director of the CSIS Africa Program found those issues include a lack of access to care in rural areas, deficits in trained healthcare professionals, lack of preparedness to handle outbreaks, unsanitary living conditions, lack of access to healthy food and clean water, and unsafe care of the dead and dying. Cooke mentioned that there are also social issues that contribute to poor population health in Africa, with issues such as conflict and civil unrest presenting unique challenges to health access and delivery (p. 10).

Maternal mortality in developing countries is alarmingly high when compared with developed countries. Africa has the highest burden in the world and Nigeria accounts for a significant proportion of these deaths (1). The 2013 Nigerian Demographic Health Survey reports maternal mortality in Nigeria at 576 deaths per 100,000 live births (2). One third of women in the country receive no antenatal service at all with much higher rates of this found in the rural areas compared with those in the urban regions (2).

In the healthcare system, the major problem is preventable communicable diseases and different nutritional disorders. A statistic from 2010 states, “More than 90% of child deaths are due to pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, neonatal problems, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS, and often a combination of these conditions” (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 2010, pg. 3). These diseases are widely preventable, however, when the healthcare system is lacking, the people of Ethiopia are negatively impacted. In Ethiopia, the life expectancy for females is 62 years of age, and for males it is 65 years of age. The probability of a person dying under the age of five years old is 68 out of 1000. The probability of dying between 15 and 60 years of age is variant depending on gender. Out of a 1000 people, 250 females and 212 males, will die between 15 and 60 years of age. Healthcare status in this

Ghana is one of the developing countries in the world. Even though now I am living in a developed country, I was also born and raised in a developing country; therefore, I wanted to explore what are the problems on the other part of the world especially African countries. Ghana is said be the country that is doing much better in increasing the health status of people as well as decreasing the mortality rates. I was interested on learning about what factors have affected the health status of this country.

The rural population’s density per square kilometer of arable land in Nigeria is 0.0. The percentage of sanitation facilities in rural areas of Nigeria, as of 2008 is 28 percent. In Nigeria, almost 100 million people live on one dollar a day. Most of the poverty is concentrated in the northern areas of Nigeria, for example, the state of Sokoto, which has a poverty rate at about 86.4 percent. The term absolute poverty is “the number of those who can only afford the bare essentials such as food, shelter, and clothing” (IFDA). The percentage of people living in absolute poverty, in the already poor areas of Nigeria in 2004 was 54.7 percent, and as of 2012, the number had grown to 60.9 percent. This number is expected to continue rising. This trend in the country has startled many due to the fact that although the economy in Nigeria is growing, most Nigerians are just getting poorer. This fact alone shows that there are other factors involved, factors that are resulting in the disruption of the progress of Nigeria.

Population growth is one of the biggest issues that the human species can face no matter where it is occurring in the world. For years ever since the 1960’s, the world’s population growth rate has been rapidly increasing and in some cases doubling. With the rapid growth of population come many challenges that people have to face and Nigeria is no exception. Nigeria, a country located in West Africa, is the sixth most populous country in the world with a total population of over 167 million (Rosenthal). The issues that Nigeria goes through as a result of population growth are just a few of the issues that many other populated countries face worldwide. The high rates of unemployment, crime, poverty as well as lack of health and education in

Lagos —  Dr. Femi Akinwumi, of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Looks At the Intimidating Challenges Facing the Health Care Sector in Nigeria And Offers Solutions...