Viet Nam Human Rights
Life expectancy increased but inequalities persist
6/6/16
According
to the annual report titled "Monitoring the health of the SDGs",
longevity has increased by 5 years in the period 2000 - 2015, the fastest
increase since the 1960s.
In
the given statement, WHO stated: "These advances have reversed the
downward trend observed in the 1990s, especially in Africa due to the AIDS
epidemic in Eastern Europe and after the Union the Soviet collapse".
According
to WHO, the most rapid growth in the region of Africa, where life expectancy
increased by 9.4 years to 60 years because of advances in the survival of
children, the fight against malaria and access to anti-retroviral drugs to
treat HIV.
World-widely,
the average life expectancy for babies born in 2015 is 71.4 years (73.8 years
for girls and 69.1 years for boys), but at the individual level, life
expectancy depends on the place of birth. Especially, report also showed that
infants in 29 countries (all of them are high-income countries) had an life
expectancy of 80 years; while in 22 countries (all in sub-Saharan Africa), it
was below 60 years of age.
The
report also said life expectancy of 86.8 years in Japan, women can live the
longest. For men in Switzerland, their life expectancy is higher at 81.3 years
old. The people of Sierra Leone has the lowest life expectancy in the world for
both sexes: 50.8 years for women and 49.3 years for men.
The
report on the other hand also showed that some countries are still very far
from achieving universal health insurance. Report especially cited data showing
the state of inequality in access to health services among the poorest citizens
of a given country with the national average for overall health care services for
mothers and children.
In
a limited number of countries with recent statistics, Costa Rica, Jordan,
Maldives, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Swaziland and Thailand are leading the
respective areas related to the most equal access to reproductive health
services for mothers and children.“The world has made great strides to reduce
unnecessary suffering and premature deaths due to preventable diseases and
treatment” - WHO General Director Dr. Margaret Chan said. “But this progress is
uneven. Helping countries achieve universal health insurance system based on
primary health care is the best thing we can do to make sure that no one are
being left behind”.
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The magnitude of change in inequality is sensitive to the particular income measure we use, but essentially all measures imply that income gaps are bigger today than they were three decades ago.
there may be no better way to appreciate humanity’s growing prosperity than to consider how long we live.
Globally, the inequality in life expectancy is shrinking.
The gap appears to be growing fast.
The longevity gap between rich and poor has already begun to have a profound effect on Social Security
The formula for calculating monthly Social Security benefits is supposed to be progressive. Payments are meant to provide a proportionally larger monthly income for lower earners than for higher earners.
In other words, a growing share of Social Security benefits will go to people with higher incomes and a shrinking share are going to those with lower incomes.
Lower mortality and morbidity is associated with almost any positive indicator of socioeconomic status, a relationship that has come to be known as "the gradient."
More educated people are better able to understand and use health information, and are better placed to benefit from the healthcare system.
Run from health to earnings, education, and labor force participation, and to the role of potential third factors, such as discount rates, that affect both education and health.
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