Saturday, November 19, 2011

Week #4 reading journal - health care for....?

 In some countries, health care, like education, is considered a public service that governments provide against their citizens. Most people are vaccinated against infectious diseases, or treated when they are ill, and informed about health problems in their areas. Every day around the world, more than thirty thousand children die from diseases which they could easily be treated. The average American lives into her or his later seventies. But in Bangladesh, average is sixty-three, while it’s fifty in Haiti, forty-tow in Afghanistan, and only thirty-four in Sierra Leone. (in Japanese, average is eighty-three.) Because many countries lack an effective health-care system, some preventable diseases still cause death. Cholera is one of those diseases. AIDS, has struck 40 million people- 28millions are who live in sub-Sahara Africa. In the U.S, people arguing about health insurance for every citizen, I wonder if they will continue that after reading this text.

vocab
  vaccinated  verb
   to give a person or an animal a vassin, especially by injecting it.
   I was vccinated against the flu.

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