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 * Disease and Health: Chile**


 * The Gapminder (Fig. 1)**



As shown in Fig. 1, Chile is in a similar position to other countries in South America in terms of both Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy. Chiles life expectancy (79) is similar to other countries in its surrounding (Cost Rica and Cuba both at 79), which is clearly above the world average of 67.2 years. Similraly, Chile is way below the world average for Infant Mortality rate (IMR) which is 49.4) with an average of 7.2 infant deaths per 1000. Surrounding countries show simliar results, with AMerica hitting 6.7, and Barbados averaging 10 infant deaths per 1000.

In conclusion, just like its neighboring countries, Chile seems to be doing rather well in terms of health, with an IMR much lower than the world average, and a Life expectancy aronud 10 years more than the worlds average.


 * Infant Mortality**



Chile Infant Mortality Rate

Current infant mortality rate: 17 deaths/ 1000 live births

-Current Life expectancy for Men = 69 -Current Life expectancy for Women = 76
 * Life Expectancy**

Chile is more of a developed country than a developing country, although its not as developed as the big countries such as the USA, or England, it still has a rather effective health system set up. One piece of evdience supporting this is the chart above, where you see the top five casuses of death are mainly degenerative. Third is Influenza/ Pneumonia, which is probably mainly because of the extreme temperature changes in between seasons due to heavy winds in winter, and scroching heat in summer. Temperatiure changes are a main cause of Influenza nad pneumonia as they are lung infectinos. There isnt much a government can do about degerenative diseases as they cant simply remove the genes, so that has nothing to do with the health system. Otherwise the fith main cause is lier disease, which is usually because of consumption of alcohol. This is a lifestyle reltaed disease, and again, the government isnt going to go and install prohibitino in their country just becase 4.6 percent of their deaths are caused by liver disease. Also, another thing to note, is that there are no huge differences between the top killer and fifteenth killer. !3% for cornoary heart disease, and 2% for rectum cancers, which mainly just come. As a whole Chile hasnt got the worlds best health care system, but it does have an effective one, which is reflected in the low IMR and high than world average LE. Also the chart above is further proof that their health care is effective.
 * **No. ** || **Name of Disease ** || **Deaths ** || **Percentage ** || **Cause** ||
 * 1 || Coronary Heart Disease || 9655 || 13.12 || Degenerative ||
 * 2 || Stroke || 8965 || 11.81 || Degenerative ||
 * 3 || Influenza and Pneumonia || 3989 || 5.42 || Water/ Vector Borne ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">4 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Diabetes Mellitus || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">3643 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">4.95 || Degenerative ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Liver Disease || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">3440 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">4.67 || Nutrition ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">6 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Stomach Cancer || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">3440 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">4.67 || Degenerative ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">7 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Alzheimer’s Dementia || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">3211 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">4.36 || Degenerative ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">8 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Lung Cancers || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">3148 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">4.28 || Vector Borne ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">9 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Hypertension || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2973 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">4.04 || Degenerative ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">10 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Lung Cancers || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2356 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">3.20 || Degenerative ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">11 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Road Traffic accidents || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2139 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2.91 || Accidental ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">12 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Prostate Cancer || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">1793 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2.44 || Degenerative ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">13 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Suicide || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">1747 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2.37 || Psychological ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">14 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Kidney Disease || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">1673 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2.27 || Nutrition ||
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">15 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Colon-rectum Cancers || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">1604 || <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">2.18 || Degenerative ||