Mika/Notes

Public Health

Nigeria

Health care

• Total health care expenditure: 4.6% GDP
  • Federal government expenditure: 1.5% GDP

• General structure: 3 tiers of government + private health care
  • Fed: University teaching hospitals
  • State: General hospitals
  • Local: Dispensaries

• Insurance: National Health Insurance Scheme (1999/2004 amendment)
  • Free health care for all citizens
  • Governmental employees insurance scheme
  • Private firms contracting with private health care providers
  • covers children under five, permanently disabled persons and prison inmates.

• Misc facts
  • Rate of growth of per capita food production: 0.25%(1970-90)

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Health Facts:

• Life expectancy:
• Mortality before age of 5:
• Rank of health care systems: 187/191 (WHO 2000)
• Prevalent diseases:
• HIV/AIDS:

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Problems:

• Health care in Nigeria is influenced by different local and regional factors that impacts the quality or quantity present in one location.
• Also, the Nigerian ministry of health usually spend about 70% of its budget in urban areas where 30% of the population resides.
• It is assumed by some scholars that the health care service is inversely related to the need of patients.
• Emigration of health care professionals

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Ethiopia

Health care

• Total health care expenditure:4.9% GDP
  • Per capita expenditure: 22USD

• General structure:

• Insurance:

• Misc facts
  • Physician: Patients = <1 : 10,000
  • In November 2004, the government launched a five-year program to expand primary health care.

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Health Facts:

• Life expectancy (M/F): 55/58
• Probability of death before 5YO: 123/1000
• Rank of health care systems (2000): 180/191
• Prevalent diseases:
• HIV/AIDS:
  • In January 2005, it began distributing antiretroviral drugs, hoping to reach up to 30,000 HIV-infected adults.

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Problems:

• Health care is disproportionately available in urban centers; in rural areas where the vast majority of the population resides, access to health care varies from limited to nonexistent.
• According to the UN and the World Bank, Ethiopia at present suffers from a structural food deficit such that even in the most productive years,

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Movies

Movies I liked

• Trouble the water

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Computer Stuff

Writing down things I've learned. Some miscellaneous stuff are:

• AJAX example: Checks if the username you entered is taken.
• Javascript example: Drag choices up and down.

MySQL

Cheat Sheet

• mysql_connect()
• mysql_select_db()
• mysql_query()
• mysql_num_rows()
• mysql_free_result()
• mysql_close()

Problem I tried to write a php and connect to mysql in it but I got an error:

Fatal Error: undefined function mysql_connect()

Solution

This page suggested that mysql isn't enabled by dafault in php5. I installed php5-mysql and restarted apache2 (don't know if that was necessary) and now it works.

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Problem I restarted my computer because I couldn't start gimp unless I was root. Clint told me that I should sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart , which basically restarted my whole computer. Since then, I couldn't use mysql because I kept getting this error:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

Solution

I followed this and restarted mysql by:

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

But it fails. It seems like I touched my.cnf and didn't restart mysql, so when my computer restarted, it incorporated the changes I made in my.cnf and mysql stopped working. I reinstalled mysql-server through apt-get, restarted mysql and now it's fine.

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Problem I have a bunch of text files from USDA, which contain bits and pieces USDA ASCII databases. I want to put them into mysql.

Solution

1. I found schema.sql that Erik created, so I'm going to borrow it rather than creating my own.

mysql databasename < schema.sql -p

Problem:

mysql> create database newdatabase;

ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost'...

Solution:

mysql

1. Check grants for 'user'@'localhost' in mysql:

mysql> show grants for 'user'@'localhost';

2. Log into mysql as root (has all privileges) and change grants for a specific user:

mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to 'user'@'localhost';

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

3. Log back into mysql as user (now has all privileges) and try creating a new database again.

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Django

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• Tried setting up Django on my computer by following this tutorial

Problem:

It worked mostly ok but I couldn't go further than the second to the last coding box on page 4. I kept getting long error messages.

Solution:

Django tutorial about django.contrib.admin

1. Check if I typed in the correct codes.

2. Check if the output are the same everwhere:

Although the codes were correct, they didn't create all the necessary things, so it couldn't find the index.html.

• I went to setting.py to specify:
  • the absolute path for Template_Dir. Don't forget the , after '/path/' .
  • two additional Installed_Apps: myprj_myapp (where I save my project) and django.contrib.admin . Run python manage.py syncdb afterwards.

This created myapp_post and django_admin_log in mysql database.

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Javascript

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JS Tutorial

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HTML

Problem:

I didn't know what meant.

Solution:

This website says: An HTML table has two kinds of cells:

   * Header cells - contains header information (created with the th element)
   * Standard cells - contains data (created with the td element)

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Problem:

I didn't know what <form name="form1"> meant.

Solution:

"A form is an area that can contain form elements.

Form elements are elements that allow the user to enter information (like text fields, textarea fields, drop-down menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.) in a form." とほほのjavascript