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My
Report
Jimmy
Speedy
Ethiopia
 In Ethiopia
the health is very poor. Some of the reasons they have bad health is because
they do not have clean water provided by anyone so they have short life
expectancy. The water can be bad, which it is a lot, and can get people sick.
This is also partially the government’s fault, in most other states the
government provides clean water, and pay for part of the vaccines provided,
which would make the life expectancy much larger.
In Ethiopia,
one of the reasons the health is poor is because they have barely any clean
drinking water. According to UNICEF less than ¼ of the population is not
getting clean water. There are some also some using aqueducts but the
percentage of people using them is about 6%, so all the other people are
getting their water from rivers and lakes. All the water from the rivers and
lakes has a much higher chance of getting you sick.
The next reason Ethiopia
is one of the countries with poor health is because they are not getting
vaccines. Only about 50%- 60% of kids have been immunized for diseases such as
polio and measles. There are about 24% of kids under the age of 5 in Ethiopia
with ARI. It is also partially the governments fault, the government is only
paying for about 18% of the vaccines. In America
the government is paying for about 56% of the vaccines.
As a result of low drinking
water and not enough vaccines in Ethiopia
the life expectancy is much lower than other usual. Globalis, a graphing website, said that the
average age of death in Ethiopia
is around 46 years old, in America
the average age of death is 60-70. The life expectancy has been about the same
for twenty years in Ethiopia,
but in most other countries it has shot up because of all of the new vaccines
and irrigation systems. A big reason why the average is so low is because of
the percent of kids getting immunized, as I stated before there are only about
50%-60% kids getting immunized.
Many kids in other countries
don’t see how lucky they are to be healthy. If they lived in Ethiopia
they would be facing many health problems, not getting enough water and not
getting vaccines. Hopefully soon the government in Ethiopia
will start paying more attention to the health crisis and try to fix it.
Works Cited
"Childhood
Under Threat, the State of the World's Children 2005." UNICEF. http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/childhood.html.
“Ethiopia.” Globalis.
http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator_detail.cfm?country=ET&indicatorid=117
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