Life Expectancy Rate In Sub-Saharan Africa

The average number of years a person can live .Rwanda has a low life expectancy of 65.788 years as shown in table 2 due to its poor health care and nutrition .They are also effected by the socioeconomic factors .Rwanda also doesn’t have a proper educational system therefore the people do not get jobs so they are not able to pay for the medicines they might need .The United STATES has a high life expectancy of 79.501 years as shown in table one .This tells us that the quality of health care and quality of life is very good in the United states.

In Mexico, around forty five percent of its one hundred and eighteen million people face food shortages or hunger. In south America, nearly ten million Peruvians suffer from hunger; that is nearly one-third of the population. In many countries around the world, it is the rural poor who suffer most. Hunger and disease, is usually in close combination and often precipitated by natural disasters or war, have plagued humankind throughout history. People need nutrition to be strong and to be able to go to school or work, but without any healthy food that cannot happen. Their bodies cannot process the activities or material they are shown due to lack of nutrients that you get from healthy sustenance. therefore, they are not able to get a good paying job or education for later in their future. World hunger is a problem that must be addressed as seen through illness,

While most reports highlights the severity of hunger in many developing nations, many suffering from hunger can happen in our backyard too. In the US, prolific families suffering from malnourishment and food insecurity makes up 12.7%

Poverty plays a huge role in how much a country gets to eat. Here in the United States, five percent of households experienced very low food security, according to the organization of Feeding America. Although that number should really be zero, it as actually relatively low compared to countries like Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries. One of the biggest issues in this country is food insecurity, leaving 33 percent of the population without a guarantee of food. Another example can be given by the organization World Information Transfer. They said that Ethiopia has been food deficient since at least the year of

Swaziland lie on the fifth lowest place in the world on the index of life expectancy, according to the CIA World Fact Book, with expected life is on average 49,2 years. (3) The UN have in their MDG's informed that the goal is to reduce the number of child death before the age of 5 from 180/1000 children to 60/1000 children by 2015. In 2008, they where down to 129, meaning they are going in the right direction, but not fast enough. Swaziland is a part of the area which are referred to as Sub-Sahara Africa, having HIV/AIDS problems like no other area in the world.

            Malawi is one of six southern African countries - along with Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Swaziland - in which 14.5 million people face severe

In the year 2015, Niger and Congo have the lowest life expectancy compared to the other 3 countries. This is because Africa is mainly made up of third world countries; so they don't have good healthcare, nutrition and a healthy way of living. Also a big factor is education, people who are more educated, tend to have higher awareness regarding their personal & surrounding hygiene. Unfortunately, enrolment rate to even primary schools have dropped in many parts of Africa. Also as high as 45% of the people in Africa have no access to clean water. As there is no alternative source, many people collect drinking water from rivers, streams & canals polluted with human excreta & chemicals. From aids to syphilis and the new Ebola outbreak, there are many deadly diseases that plague the African people that also contribute in the low life expectancy.

The purpose of this paper is to create a health profile of the country of Malawi identifying the state of the overall health of the country based on specific health issues. Malawi has a population of 15,263,000. The average lifespan for males is 44 years and the average lifespan for females is 51 years. The leading causes of death in Malawi are HIV/AIDS, Lower Respiratory Infections, Malaria, Diarrheal Disease, and Perinatal Conditions. Infant mortality has a rate of 58 deaths for every 1,000 live births (Bowie, 2006).

The United Nations (UN) defines elderly as 60 years and older(1)Worldwide, the proportion of people age 60 and over is growing faster than any other age group. By 2050 there will be 2 billion with 80 percent of them living in developing countries(2).In sub-Saharan Africa is projected to more than triple from64 million in 2015 to 220 million in 2050, a more rapid rate of increase than any other region of the world (3).

The health of many women in Algeria which is part of Sub-Saharan Africa in 1990 were impacted by the poor health care system because they lived in poverty. Poverty caused these women to lack essential needs to live a quality life. They lacked or could not afford resources such as supplies, health care professionals, and facilities for healthcare, clean water, and waste disposal. This ultimately affected the health of women and their children. For instance, lack of clean water and waste disposal facilities can cause health abnormalities such as cholera or typhoid fever which can cause devastating deaths. This is a healthcare problem because of the lack of funding. The lack of funding prevents antibiotics from being used to prevent death, and prevents African’s from being vaccinated against typhoid fever. Another example of how poverty affects woman’s health is unintended pregnancy, which is because they are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior. It's part of the health crisis because it includes a poor health system, and a lack of education about proper nutrition and behaviors during pregnancy. Complications in these pregnancies due to poor nutrition and not visiting the doctor regularly includes increased infant mortality. Infant mortality in the slums of Nairobe is 91.3% while it is 75.9% in urban areas where there is a better developed healthcare system. The inferiority of poor Africans in

The majority of population growth in the next century is expected to be concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa because many of those regions are in developmental stages where infant mortality is still high, as are birth rates, resulting in a high natural increase rate. Because China and India have already gone through much of the social developments that have educated their people and has created lower fertility rates, and has lowered their population projections. Both of these reasons have resulted in African countries having much smaller doubling times in their populations compared to those in Asia.

As shown above, a large majority of the population do not have enough money and cannot afford to buy food to feed their families. Therefore, these people have to survive on very little or no food for up to several days each time. Children take the greatest impact because they need adequate

Living in the U.S famine may seem like a distant problem that is hard imagine, but famine is a reality for many people across the world. It would be worrisome if we only viewed it as a fictional problem far from our grasp. The general definition of famine is when there is a widespread scarcity of food. However, this definition is too broad to be used to make any useful policies. The most universally accepted definition of famine, that was developed by the U.N, is that 20 percent of the population must have fewer than 2100 kilocalories of food available per day, that more than 30 percent of children must be acutely malnourished, and that two deaths per day in every 10,000 people - or four deaths per day in every 10,000 children - must be being caused by lack of food (Gorman, 2013). This description of famine is useful well it comes to making policies by giving us a foundation on which we can build our responses. This definition also gives a measurement to which we can hold countries to see how quickly they are progressing towards famine and how devastating the famine will be. A famine can be caused by a number of events such as; war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, disease and government policies (Von Braun, 1999). A famine can be cured by the use of food aid, food vouchers, government policies, and the end of the event that was causing the famine.

Medical knowledge is less than adequate in these societies, leading to much illness and a very high death rate. The infant mortality rate is overwhelmingly high, which is a reason for the high birth rates. Many infants do not make it through their first year of life before they get deathly ill - most of them do eventually die from their illness. The medical technology of modern society is so expensive to third world countries, making it extremely difficult for their society to stay healthy. Life expectancy is about 40-45 years in traditional societies.

Since the mid 1990s, the amount of Zimbabweans living below poverty line had more than double. In 2006, the World Health Organization reported that people living in Zimbabwe had one of the lowest life expectancy in the world. The average life expectancy for women was 34 years and for men was 37 years. The World Health Organization estimated that some 3,500 Zimbabweans died every week through the deadly combination of HIV/AIDS, poverty and malnutrition. Mugabe government did not aware of his people’s well-being, especially the widely spread of HIV/AIDS. Nonetheless, that government only kept everything to maintain its hold on power and just leaving little money or no money for HIV/AIDS prevention and most of Zimbabwe suffered from malnutrition, so they needed food aid, but the government neglected about the extent of the problem, leaving them to