Public health

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Public health

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introduction

• Public health is "the science and art of
  preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting
  health through the organized efforts for the
  sanitation of the environment, the control of
  communicable infections, the education of the
  individual in personal hygiene, the organization
  of medical and nursing services for the early
  diagnosis and preventive treatment of

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• disease, and the development of the social
  machinery to insure everyone a standard of living
  adequate for the maintenance of health. So
  organizing these benefits as to enable every
  citizen to realize his birthright of health and
  longevity. Provided by Dr. Winslow, 1920.
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• The population in question can be as small as a
  handful of people or as large as all the
  inhabitants of several continents (for instance,
  in the case of a pandemic). Public health is
  typically divided into epidemiology,
  biostatistics and health services. Environmental,
  social, behavioral, and occupational health are
  also important subfields.

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Causes of top ten deaths

• Cancer, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease,
  diabetes mellitus, accidents, pneumonia, chronic
  liver disease, nephritis,
• Suicides, hypertension.---2007 (Taiwan)

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Demographics of Taiwan

• This article is about the demographic features of
  the population in Taiwan, including population
  density, ethnicity, education level, health of
  the populace, economic status, religious
  affiliations and other aspects of the population.

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• The population in Taiwan was estimated in June
  2009 at 23,063,027 spread across a total land
  area of 35,980 km², making it the fifteenth most
  densely populated country in the world with a
  population density of 635 people per km².
  According to official governmental statistics,
  98 of Taiwan's population is made up of Han
  Chinese, while 2 are Taiwanese aborigines.
• Around 93 of the religious population are
  followers of a mixture of Buddhism, Taoism, and
  Confucianism, while a minority 4.5 are followers
  of Christianity.

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• Taiwan is suffering from a decline in birth rates
  with a population growth of just 0.23 and a
  fertility rate of 1.12 children (below the 2.1
  births average needed to replace the existing
  population) for the year 2007. The official
  national language is Standard Mandarin, although
  a majority also speak Taiwanese and Hakka.
• Japanese speakers are becoming rare as the
  elderly generation who lived under Japanese rule
  are dying out. Aboriginal languages are gradually
  becoming extinct as the aborigines have become
  acculturated despite a program by the ROC
  government to preserve the languages.

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• 1Taiwan Province??? or ???
• 18,590,635
• 2Taipei City ???2,620,693
• 3Kaohsiung City???1,511,601
• 4Fukien Province???82,618 Total  22,805,547

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Life expectancy at birth

• Taiwan is ranked 51st in the world for highest
  life expectancy at birth.
• Gender Life expectancy
• Male75.12 years
• Female81.05 years
• Average77.96 years
• Source CIA World Factbook (2009 est.)

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HIV/AIDS

• Main article HIV/AIDS in Taiwan
• The first reported case of HIV/AIDS was recorded
  in December 1984 and the first local infection
  recorded in February 1986.
• As of May 2006, there were 11,486 recorded cases
  of HIV of which 2,631 were confirmed with AIDS.
  There were 1,425 deaths leaving 10,029 people
  living with HIV/AIDS. This is less than 0.5 of
  the total population of Taiwan.

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• Statistics by the Center for Disease Control show
  that the gender distribution of infected person
  was 90 male and 10 female.
• Data PopulationAdult prevalence11,486
• People living with HIV/AIDS10,029Deaths1,425
• Source Center for Disease Control (CDC),
  Republic of China - May 2006 est.

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