Chapter 9 assignment I: Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy: 1) Online, go to t

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Chapter 9 assignment I: Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy: 1) Online, go to the CIA World Factbook. 2) Look on the right hand side a couple of inches down for “Select a Country or Location.” 3) Select the United States. When the appropriate screen appears, scroll down and click on “People and Society.” 4) Scroll down until you find the infant mortality rate for the United States. Write this number down. You only need to write down the figure given for “Total.” 5) Find the infant mortality rate for Cuba (“Total”) and write it down. 6) Find the infant mortality rate for eight additional countries and write down the information. Four of the eight countries should be fully developed nations (Most Industrialized Nations), while the other four should be developing nations (Industrializing Nations and Least Industrialized Nations.) If you do not know which countries fall into which category, consult pages 236-237 of your text. 7) Arrange the information in columns, with the country having the lowest infant mortality rate listed on top (#1) and the country with the highest infant mortality rate on the bottom (#10). The first column should have the country name. The second column should have the country’s infant mortality rate. 8) Write a paragraph in which you summarize your findings. How does the United States compare to other nations? Offer a sociological explanation as to why this might be the case. Now do the same with regard to life expectancy. You are going to submit two charts: one with IMR data, the other with life expectancy data. In addition, you are to submit two summary paragraphs: one on IMR, the other on life expectancy. This is where you talk about how the United States compares to other nations on these two ‘quality of life’ measures, offering a sociological explanation as to why this might be the case.

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infant mortality- it can be define as the death rate of child or infant just after they born. the case is so strippen to the united states that it have its own valuation to the countries of the other nations . the data are estimated by the agencies of public health and welfare organization of the united state. the infant mortality rate of U.S is 5.8 per thousand birth. the infant mortality rate of cuba is 4.5 per 1000 birth.

autralia 4.3 death per 1000. (#2)

belgium 1.78 per 1000 (#1)

afganistan 112.8 death per 1000 (#8)

canada 4.6 per 1000 (#3)

china 12.2 per 1000 (#4)

india 40.5 per 1000 (#6)

bangladesh 32.9 per 1000 (#5)

pakistan 53.9 per 1000 (#7)

In the above data we analyse that the mortality rate of the developed countries have too low means that the health and public health care system is so good and the medical facility is too developed and advanced that it seem to be total protection for the people of such countries, but the case of developing countries are poor. if we take the case of afganistan then it have the highest mortality rate in the contex. it shows that the public health care system is very down in this country. although we should keep in mind that it is a developin country.

For the summary of IMR - it is the infant death rate per thousand live birth. this rate of any country will tell us about the public health care system and medical sytem of any country. for the case of developed country the rate is too low. it means death is low and this lead to continue population increament at that region. and vice versa also true.

life expectancy data- it can be defined as the statics measurement of the average life time of an organisation to live. it is depend upon the current age, year of birth and other data like sex, are used to calculate the data over the region of country.

life expectancy data-

australia 82.2 years

belgium 85.6 years

afganistan 60 years

pakistan 75 years

india 85.6 years

canada 86.5 years

bangladesh 66.9 years

=> This is the statistics of life expectancy data of the different nations.

Now if we compare the situation with the united state to other countries than we easily see from the data that the both infant mortality rate as well as life expectancy rate, both are in good position. it means it is a well developed country which have perfect and advanced public health care system and medical system

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