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Health Care in Columbia
Health Care in Columbia
Health Care in Columbia
There is obvious
(Webster, Health in Columbia: discrimination against
displaced people who seek
treating the displaced) health services
- Anajulia Caicedo
Life Expectancy
Males
Expected: 71
Females
Expected: 78
(WHO, Colombia)
Top Causes of Premature Death
1990 2015
High BP
Dietary Risks
High BMI
High fasting glucose index
(IHME, Colombia)
Outbreak
Guillain-Barr Syndrome
Auto-immune disease
Not contagious
Bernstein, Lenny. Once again, U.S. has most expensive, least effective health
care system in survey. The Washington Post, 2014,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-
health/wp/2014/06/16/once-again-u-s-has-most-expensive-least-effective-
health-care-system-in-survey/?utm_term=.82e0a96f1079. Accessed 28
November 2016.
CDC. Leading Causes of Death. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm. Accessed 30
November 2016.
---. GBD Profile: Columbia. Institutes for Health Metrics and Evaluation,
http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/country_profiles/GBD/ih
me_gbd_country_report_colombia.pdf. Accessed 28 November 2016.
Works Cited
Webster, Paul C. Health in Columbia: the chronic disease burden. CMAJ, vol. 184,
no. 6, 2012, http://www.cmaj.ca/content/184/6/E293. Accessed 25 November 2016.
---. Health in Columbia: a system in crisis. CMAJ, vol. 184, no. 6, 2012,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3314050/. Accessed 25 November
2016.
---. Health in Columbia: treating the displaced. CMAJ, vol. 184, no. 6, 2012,
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/184/6/E291. Accessed 25 November 2016.