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Healthcare In Burundi
Burundi is one of the poor African countries with heavy burden of both communicable, maternal, neonatal, nutritional, and non-communicable diseases. The burden of communicable diseases generally outweighs the burden of other diseases. Mothers and children are among those most vulnerable to this burden. Civilians in Burundi have lived through years of conflict due to the civil war, leaving many civilians facing economic crisis. The government has had limited capacity to invest in the health system, so the health infrastructure is poor. The link between health and poverty is undeniable. Many of Burundians do not have access to primary health care. Yet the Human Rights Measurement Initiative finds that Burundi is fulfilling what it should be for the right to health based on income levels. Burundi had the lowest consumption of antibiotics of any country in the world in 2015 with a rate of 4.4 defined daily doses per 1,000 inhabitants per day. Health status As of 2019, the averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Improving Health
Improvement is the process of a thing moving from one state to a state considered to be better, usually through some action intended to bring about that better state. The concept of improvement is important to governments and businesses, as well as to individuals. History of the concept The term "improvement" in general means "gradual, piecemeal, but cumulative betterment", which can refer to both individuals and societies as a whole. The term "improvement" historically referred to land improvement, the process of making wildland more suitable for human uses, particularly the cultivation of crops.Alan Craig Houston, ''Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement'' (2008), p. 12. Agricultural writers contrasted "improvement" with the traditional custom that governed farming practices at the time. The belief in agricultural "improvement" was the belief that the earth could be made more fruitful. More specifically, it was the belief that "the knowledge of nature would allow the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
