Shabhina BaghauanGeetha ShanmuganathanRenu DarishiniAzlin Hafizah MisnanAmal RuhiSiti RonezaHasannah IsmailAnis SokryKavitha BalasingamMohnika GunasegaramAzizan Azfar bin SamuinHakim AminullahGabriella Burke

GENERAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF RESIDENTIAL LIFE IN JAMAICA

• Independence: 06/08/1962

Honorable Portia Simpson-Miller

Governor General Patrick Allen

Climatic and Geographic Peculiarities

MODEL OF HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEM

18 General

• Hospitals 6 Specialists

• Primary Care System (Clinics) 331 Clinics

(+ 23 satellites)

• Public Health System - predominates in the community health and inpatient areas

System of Medical Insurance

• National Insurance Scheme (NIS)– NIS is a compulsory

contributory funded social security scheme

– offers financial protection to the worker and his family against loss of income arising from injury on job, incapacity, retirement, and death of the insured.

The frequency of hospitalization

Average duration of patient stay in hospital

Hospital lethality

Family planning

Age-sex composition of the population

•NATALITY RATECrude birth rate

•MORTALITY RATE Crude death rate

Selected Infectious Diseases

JAMAICA Number of Reported Cases

CHOLERA -

MEASLES 0

MUMPS 4

H5N1 INFLUENZA -

DIPHTHERIA 0

PERTUSSIS 1

RUBELLA 0

TETANUS 1

TUBERCULOSIS 105

POLIOMYELITIS 0

YELLOW FEVER 0

Injuries

JAMAICA Unintentional injuries where falls caused

Laceration

Accidental Blunt Injuries

Road Injuries

Fights Sharp Object purposely inflicted

Estimated Rate%

44 27 17 55 76 40