Re: Perinatal morbity: was: List

From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse (el@lisse.NA)
Tue Oct 31 00:46:48 2000


Kathi,

At 18:27 30.10.00 -0600, Kathi Wilson wrote:

>One of the fascinating things that I learned in my population health/health
>promotion classes a few years ago was that the general health of a country's
>population is associated with the disparity (or lack thereof) between the
>richest
>and poorest in the nation. Those nations with the least disparity tend to
>have
>the best overall health.

Spot on.

In Namibia, the German speaking part of the population has a better standard of living than the population of Germany, according to UNDP figures. But nationwide with a large indigeneous population (many of which living in reservations with limited resources) we are just the developing country in Africa...

el





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