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词条 Health in East Timor
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  1. Healthcare

  2. References

Life expectancy in East Timor at birth was at 60.7 in 2007.[1] The fertility rate is at six births per woman.[1] Healthy life expectancy at birth was at 55 years in 2007.[1]

Malnutrition rates in children have reduced but in 2013 still stood at 51%.

The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for East Timor was 370. This compares with 928.6 in 2008 and 1016.3 in 1990. The under-5 mortality rate per 1,000 births is 60 and the neonatal mortality rate per 1,000 live births is 27.[2] The number of midwives per 1,000 live births is 8 and the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women is 1 in 44.[3]

The country has one of the highest smoking rates in the world, with 33% of the population, including 61% of men, smoking daily.[4]

In 2013 only three deaths from malaria were recorded, and achievement recognized by the World Health Organization.

Healthcare

Government expenditure on health was US$150 per person in 2006.[1] There were only two hospitals and 14 village healthcare facilities in 1974. By 1994, there were 11 hospitals and 330 healthcare centres.[5]

Sergio Lobo, a surgeon is the Health Minister. He says that “Many of the health-related issues are outside the competence of the Minister of Health.” Since independence the country has established a medical school, a nursing school, and a midwifery school. There is no MRI scanner in the country.[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url = http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_TMP.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090429193242/http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_TMP.html|dead-url = yes|archive-date = 29 April 2009|title = Human Development Report 2009 – Timor-Leste|publisher = Hdrstats.undp.org|accessdate = 28 March 2010}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.unfpa.org/sowmy/resources/docs/country_info/profile/en_TimorLeste_SoWMy_Profile.pdf|title=Timor-Leste|publisher=United Nations Population Fund|date=|accessdate=11 February 2013}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.unfpa.org/sowmy/report/home.html|title=The State Of The World's Midwifery|publisher=United Nations Population Fund|accessdate=1 June 2016}}
4. ^[https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27677882 The country where nearly two-thirds of men smoke], BBC News, Peter Taylor, 4 June 2014
5. ^Robinson, G. If you leave us here, we will die, Princeton University Press 2010, p. 72.
6. ^{{cite news |title=East Timor striving for universal access to health care |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61926-7/fulltext |accessdate=18 November 2018 |publisher=Lancet |date=25 October 2014}}

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