Health
- Fertility rate- 140th most fertile, at 1.85 per woman
- Birth rate – 157th most births, at 13.91 per 1000 people
- Infant mortality – 128th most deaths, at 1 per 1000 live births
- Birth rate – 157th most births, at 13.91 per 1000 people
- Death rate – 84th highest death rate, at 9.16 per 1000 people
- Life Expectancy – 47th highest, at 76.4 years
- Suicide Rate – 24th highest suicide rate, at 15.1 for males and 6.4 for females per 100,000 people
- HIV/AIDS rate – 108th most cases, at 0.30%
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Famous quotes containing the word health:
“The first year was critical to my assessment of myself as a person. It forced me to realize that, like being married, having children is not an end in itself. You don’t at last arrive at being a parent and suddenly feel satisfied and joyful. It is a constantly reopening adventure.”
—Anonymous Mother. From the Boston Women’s Health Book Collection. Quoted in The Joys of Having a Child, by Bill and Gloria Adler (1993)
“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“Woman ... cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)