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:
“Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)
“Men’s hearts are cold. They are indifferent. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. It remains indifferent to the lives of those who risk their life and health down in the blackness of the earth; who crawl through dark, choking crevices with only a bit of lamp on their caps to light their silent way; whose backs are bent with toil, whose very bones ache, whose happiness is sleep, and whose peace is death.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)
“... work is only part of a man’s life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)