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Emerging
Infectious Disease
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B. Quality of Life
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Country |
Literacy Rate |
% Daily Food Require-ment |
Life Expectancy (years) |
Primary
Cause |
Infant mortality / 1000 births |
% Population w/ Safe Water |
Population doubling time (yr) |
% Population w/ HIV/AIDS |
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China |
89.9% |
116.0 |
69.0 |
Perinatal |
39.0 |
67.0 |
82 |
0.07 |
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Haiti |
48.0% |
83.0 |
47.3 |
Bacterial
& |
98.9 |
37.0 |
41 |
8.0 |
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Mexico |
89.6% |
133.0 |
68.6 |
Cardiovascular |
25.8 |
85.6 |
30 |
14 |
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Pakistan |
37.8% |
107.0 |
59.9 |
Malaria |
84.6 |
95.0 |
30 |
0.10 |
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Sweden |
100.0% |
116.0 |
76.9 |
Heart disease |
3.4 |
100.0 |
>100 |
0.01 |
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Uganda |
61.8% |
95.0 |
41.9 |
AIDS |
95.2 |
46.0 |
22 |
8.3 |
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United |
85.0% |
140.0 |
73.8 |
Cardiovascular |
7.1 |
99.4 |
>100 |
0.3 |
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Data Sources: United Nations FAO and World Bank, 1999. |
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- Arrange the countries in order of quality of life.
- Which country has the best quality of life/standard of living? On what did you base your decision?
- How would you do to improve conditions in the countries at the bottom of your list?
C. Emerging
Disease & Immigration.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was a cook responsible for
a seven family typhoid fever epidemic before she was caught by Sarah Josephine
Baker in 1907. Mallon was confined to a hospital for nearly three years.
Upon her release she promised to take up an occupation other than cooking.
Mallon disappeared for five years but her trail was picked up, again through
epidemiology. Mallon spent the next 23 years, to the end of her life in
1938, in North Brother Island Prison (New York City). Were Mallon's civil
rights violated by her long incarceration?
The 1990 Immigration Act states that persons with "communicable disease of public health significance*" will not be allowed into the U.S. Should people be prevented from emigrating because of their health status?