Sometimes it is easier to understand global healthcare issues when you can see the statistics represented by infographics. You can compare statistics this way and they often have more of an impact in this form. Here are 5 must-see infographics about global healthcare.
Health Care Expenditures: An International Comparison
This infographic shows how much different countries spend on healthcare. This infographic is especially helpful because it breaks the expenditure down into categories like hospital expenses, ambulatory expenses, pharmacy expenses, and more. Seeing what percentages of the gross domestic product of each country goes toward healthcare helps you to understand the striking disparities that exist and lead you to question why these disparities exist.
Global Distribution Of Poverty
This infographic seeks to clearly illustrate where poverty exists in the world. Many people have no idea where those in poverty really are concentrated in the world. It also talks about the geographic and biophysical circumstances that are experienced in these areas. This infographic is meant to be informative. It seeks to let everyone and specifically those in power know where poverty is concentrated so that steps may be taken to attempt to reduce the levels of poverty in these areas.
Number Of Health Workers
This infographic investigates an interesting belief which states that having more nurses and doctors means that better health care will be provided. These infographics take a closer look at this belief and show where the highest density of these health professionals exists in the world. By seeing where the greatest density of these professionals exists in the world you can also begin to question how this correlates with the known quality of health care in these areas. Transversely, you can also see where the lesser densities exist and start to draw some conclusions based on this information too.
Maternal Mortality
This infographic clearly shows the maternal mortality rates for different parts of the world. To say that the differences in maternal mortality are different from one place to another would be an understatement. The divides are downright shocking.
The maternal mortality rates are listed out of every 100,000 live births. You might be amazed to realize that the lowest maternal mortality rate is 8 out of 100,000 while the highest maternal mortality rate listed here is 920 out of 100,000. Another infographic shades the world in bright colors to show you where maternal mortality rates are low, moderate, high, and very high.
A Global Look At Women’s Attitudes Toward Domestic Abuse
This infographic presents the chilling fact that large percentages of women in many countries believe that it is ok for their husbands to hit them. The fact that any woman would believe this is incomprehensible so seeing that up to 90% of women believe this in some countries is simultaneously shocking and saddening. This is certainly a sobering infographic.
These 5 infographics are ones everyone should see. They point out facts that are otherwise hard to picture and raise important questions. They help everyone to see what might need changing so that everyone has a chance to work to change it.
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