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Sierra Leone’s “Health-Break”
By, Rosanna Crocitto
Analysis Question•How does the economic state of a third
world country, such as Sierra Leone, affect individual health and availability for health care?
▫In relation to these economic conditions, a vast majority of disease spreads and an epidemic occurs, such as the current 2014 Ebola Virus outbreak.
Background
•Economic Downturn within Sierra Leone
▫Corruption
▫Still in Civil War Recovery
▫Continuation of High Inflation
Industrialization
▫Trade of diamonds, cocoa,
and coffee
▫Major exporting partners
Belgium, Germany, Great Britain,
and the United States
Gross Domestic Product
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 201602468
10121416
5.4 6
15.213.3 14.1
10.59.2
5.2 4.5 3.7 4.7 4.7 5.1 5.1
Comparison of GDP Annual % Forecast
Sierra LeoneSub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Sierra Leone’s Government debt is 20% of its GDP
National Health Expenditures
•15.1% of total GDP•$4.6 million for humanitarian assistance •$1.2 million among all health causes
Airborne, water, and foodborne disease care and sanitation provisions
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, pandemic, maternal & child health, nutrition, etc.
Poor Health Care Availability
•Limited Health Resources▫Modern Medicine
Foreign aid $13.7 million in 2013▫Hospitals
3 doctors for every 100,000 patients Supplies and accommodations Transportation
▫Education
“Army Standing by the Wall”
•2010 Provision ▫Free Health Care for all
women, and children under the age of 5 An estimated 1,800 out
of every 100,000 women and children die per year
60 58 42 64 80 78
Child vaccina-tion (annual %)
Ebola Virus 2014•“Best preventative is
awareness”
•Training health care workers
•Breaking Quarantine▫Food cutoffs for thousands▫Major increase in food and simple good costs
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