Reference no: EM13160721

Composite measure such as Healthy life year Liberia

Healthy life in Liberia since the past two decades have been tremendous conflict of civil war in Liberia and poor governance on Liberia’s capacity for human development has been devastating for Liberian. They have been undeveloped infrastructure unhealthy diseases such as HIV, Obesity, diabetes, Cholera, loss of life through conflict or extreme deprivation, forced human displacement, and the collapse of livelihoods have left a perilous legacy of human insecurity.

Indicators of human development in Liberia covering employment, income, health, education, gender equality and child welfare are amongst the lowest in the world. It is symptomatic of Liberia’s crisis of conflict and governance that for the last five years the country has not been ranked in terms of human development at all – due to the absence of data – and the second National Human Development Report was disrupted. Prior to the crisis that gripped the country between 1989 and 2003, Liberia enjoyed relative social stability and economic progress. By the time the crisis came to an end in the last rounds of full-scale civil war inside Monrovia in July 2003, almost all government institutions had ceased to function effectively and the little capacity that had evolved over the years was ruined.

Almost all government institutions ceased to function due to the massive flight of human capacity and the lack of essential tools, logistics and basic supplies. Food systems and stocks were disrupted, as farming communities were displaced and warlords and combatants plundered the fields. Over 270,000 people died as a direct result of the conflict or through illness exacerbated by the destruction of health facilities.

Roads, bridges and community-based water and sanitation facilities were destroyed, including the Mount Coffee hydropower plant and other smaller power plants. The conflict also ripped through the socio-economic fabric of Liberian society, breaking down family and social values. Nearly every family incurred loss and many suffered from psychological stress and trauma. Family and household incomes were eroded due to the collapse of economic activities. Loss of personal income, dignity and lives, the loss of physical abilities from wounds as well as brutal sexual violence perpetrated against women and female children were all by-products of the conflict.

Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy in America

The overall pattern of health and diseases varies in important ways between developed countries. America is developed in socioeconomic terms, capacity and infrastructure, cultural traditions, life expectancy increases, and the mortality and morbidity shifts from infectious disease to better lifestyle related health problems.

The wide spread of diseases such as HIV/AID , cancer, , heart disease, avian flu have also blurred the distinction between general patterns of health. Moreover lifestyle related diseases as heart problems and other have increasingly appeared in the developing world due to longer lifespans, as well as differential economic development among population sectors within countries that is, where some population groups live in more developed conditions than other.

The capacity and infrastructure in American is better equipped and characteristics by good transportation capabilities and the availability of water and power for example, sanitation are well cleaned with safe drinking water to avoid diseases.