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)
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 187/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
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
Ethiopia
Health care
- Total health care expenditure: 4.9% GDP (2005)
- Per capita expenditure: 4 USD
- General structure: Health Sector Development Program (HSDP)
- a primary health care unit, (a network of a health center and five health posts)
- the hospital
- regional hospital
- specialized referral hospital.
- 4 tier financing
- the federal and regional governments
- grants and loans from bilateral and multilateral donors
- non-governmental organizations
- private contributions.
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Physician: Patients = <1 : 10,000
- In November 2004, the government launched a five-year program to expand primary health care.
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy (M/F): 55/58
- Probability of death before 5YO: 166/1000
- Rank of health care systems (2000): 180/191
- Prevalent diseases: Communicable diseases (Malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB)
- HIV/AIDS:
- In January 2005, it began distributing antiretroviral drugs, hoping to reach up to 30,000 HIV-infected adults.
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,
Tanzania
Health care
- Total health care expenditure:
- General structure:
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Rate of growth of per capita food production:
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 156/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
Problems:
South Africa
Health care
- Total health care expenditure:
- General structure:
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Rate of growth of per capita food production:
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 156/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
Problems:
Morocco
Health care
- Total health care expenditure:
- General structure:
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Rate of growth of per capita food production:
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 156/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
Problems:
Thailand
Health care
- Total health care expenditure:
- General structure:
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Rate of growth of per capita food production:
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 156/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
Problems:
China
Health care
- Total health care expenditure:
- General structure:
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Rate of growth of per capita food production:
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 156/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
Problems:
Indonesia
Health care
- Total health care expenditure:
- General structure:
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Rate of growth of per capita food production:
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 156/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
Problems:
Malaysia
Health care
- Total health care expenditure:
- General structure:
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Rate of growth of per capita food production:
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 156/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
Problems:
Costa Rica
Health care
- Total health care expenditure:
- General structure:
- Insurance:
- Misc facts
- Rate of growth of per capita food production:
Health Facts:
- Life expectancy:
- Mortality before age of 5:
- Rank of health care systems: 156/191 (WHO 2000)
- Prevalent diseases:
- HIV/AIDS:
Problems:
Movies
Movies I liked
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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.
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.
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:
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.
Django
- 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.
Javascript
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)
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
