NationMaster - Trinidadian-Tobagonian Health statistics

Access to sanitation	95%		[40th of 129]
Drug access	50%		[120th of 163]
Intestinal diseases death rate	4.97%		[92nd of 141]
Life expectancy at birth > Female	67.87 years		[159th of 220]
Malaria cases > per 100,000	1		[88th of 94]
Maternal mortality	70 per 100,000		[71st of 136]
Probability of not reaching 40	4.1%		[106th of 111]
Respiratory disease child death rate	6.38
Smoking prevalence, females > % of adults	8 %	...	[3rd of 43]
Smoking prevalence, males > % of adults	42.1 %	...	[1st of 42]
Spending > Per person	204		[49th of 133]
Spending > Private	1.8		[83rd of 141]
Spending > Public	2.5%
Suicide rate > Females	4.8 per 100,000 people		[38th of 80]
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	4 per 100,000 people		[25th of 76]
Suicide rate > Males	19 per 100,000 people		[33rd of 80]
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP	3.7%		[166th of 185]
Total fertility rate	1.6		[149th of 166]
Tuberculosis cases > Per 100,000	9		[134th of 165]
Water availability	2,968 cubic meters		[104th of 169]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva; World Health Organisation. 1997-1999 World Health Statistics Annual. Geneva: WHO, 2000; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; UNHDR; UNICEF (United Nations Children?s Fund). 2002. Official Summary: The State of the World's Children 2002. New York: Oxford University Press.; UN 2001 via backone.pdf; World Development Indicators database; World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC; ; annual figures:WHO databank, National Bureaus of Statistics. Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Population Division (1995). World population prospects. The 1994 revision. New York: United Nations. Partly computations: Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatric Clinic, University of W?rzburg, Germany; World Health Organization

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, trinidad & tobago, trinidad tobago, trin. and tob.

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Shanty Rampaul
11th June 2005

It would be a tremendous help to add a Psychiatric section to this list, and a link to Health facilities in Trinidad that can assist people that are clinically depressed.

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