Good Health and Well-Being Blog

South Africa is the southernmost country of the African continent, well known for their natural beauty and great cultural diversity. (Thompson, 2019) Unfortunately they struggle with overpopulation, lack of clean water, sanitation and good health. These issues affect their progress towards their sustainable development goal of ensuring good health and well-being. South Africa is currently populated at 57,142,000 people. This disrupts the quality health care needed to ensure their third Sustainable development goal is met. They currently have 0.91 physicians per 1,000 people.(CIA, 2018) South Africa currently struggles with the spread of HIV/AIDS and with the high demand of health physicians these infectious diseases will continue to spread and get worse. According to the world factbook, South Africas' rivers and lakes are in need of extensive water conservation and control measures due to growth in water usage and the rivers are polluted. South Africa plans to implement the ...

This week I chose a country that I have heard of as a tourist attraction, the Philippines. The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country. known for their beautiful beaches, monuments, mountains, rainforests and diving spots. What many do not know that the Philippines is one of the richest countries in Southeast Asia, but they struggle with child mortality, maternal health and infectious diseases. due to lack of preventative strategies, treatment, education, immunizations and sexual and reproductive healthcare. (UNDP) The total infant mortality rate is 20.9 deaths per 1000 births, followed by a maternal mortality rate of 121 deaths per 100,000 births. Due to their lack of physicians and health beds, being at 1.28 physicians per 1,000 population and 1 bed per 1,000 population, they fail to administer treatments and healthcare to ensure healthy lives and well being. In addition, 77,000 people of a population of 105,893,381currently live with HIV/AIDs along wit 1,200 deaths in the year ...

This week I will be covering the land of Nigeria. Nigeria is an African country of the Gulf of Guinea. Nigeria currently suffers a high infant mortality rate, along with high death rates due to AIDs. This, as well as their population increasing exponentially, hinders their progress on their sustainable development goal to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.  By being overpopulated Nigeria can not ensure all get proper health care services and treatment. Their lack of physicians, 0.38 physicians per 1,000 population, prevents them from being able to help their people. The fact that Nigeria has the largest population being 190.9 million as of 2017, amongst any African nation worsens their issues. They lack proper sanitation, struggle with drinking water and due to this, many of their people are at very high risk of contracting major infectious diseases. As of last year, there were more than 1.9 million of the population with HIV or AIDs. Also, almost...