Lancet - Summary of key health indicators in Haiti - 2008

[sharon sanders]

The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9639, Pages 615 - 618, 23 August 2008

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61259-3
Haiti's forgotten emergency

Original Text
Patralekha Chatterjee


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Panel 2
Summary of key health indicators in Haiti

• 54% of population live on less than US$1 a day
• 25% of births are institutional deliveries
• 26% of births have a skilled attendant at delivery
• The maternal mortality ratio is 630 per 100 000 livebirths
• The under-5 mortality rate is 80 per 1000 livebirths
• The infant mortality rate is 60 per 1000 livebirths
• 14% of the rural population use adequate sanitation facilities
• 57% of the urban population use adequate sanitation facilities
• 3?8% of adults (15?49 years) live with HIV/AIDS

Source: UNICEF. http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_statistics.html.





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