Hospital Architecture Firm in Americas
Americas
The Americas, which are also collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. It covers an area of 16,428,000 sq mi and 8% of Earth’s total surface.
| Population | 964,920,000 |
| Literacy Rate | 98.54% |
Health status depends not only on the provision of Health care, but also on the behavior of people and environment they live in. The overall Life expectancy of regions of Americas is high due to its rising living standards, better nutrition and improved drinking water and sanitation facility.
Factors such as the education of the mother, quality of antenatal and childbirth care, preterm birth and birth weight, immediate new-born care and infant feeding practices are important determinants of infant mortality.
Key Health Indicators
| Life Expectancy (2018) | 77.4 |
| Maternal Mortality Ratio (100,000 live births) | 56.6 |
| Infant Mortality Rate (1000 live births) | 12.3 |
| Neonatal Mortality Rate (1000 live births) | 7.7 |
| Under 5 Mortality Rate (1000 live births) | 15.1 |
Disease Burden
Mortality trends and profile in the region of America have undergone substantial changes in recent decades.
Various demographic changes like the change in lifestyle, environmental, behavioral and economic factors have led to communicable disease burden being replaced by Non-communicable Disease.
Over years improvement in primary health care and disease control and surveillance have reduced the risk of death from vaccine preventable diseases and complication during pregnancy and childbirth.
A large number of mortalities has been noted due to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer and are therefore becoming the leading cause of death among Americans.
Communicable Diseases on the other hand has shown a rapid decline in Mortality which is due to improved access to water and sanitation services, micronutrient supplementation, primary care and vaccination among other areas.
Some regions show the higher rate of mortality due to Tuberculosis. HIV/AIDS shows in highest prevalence in the region of Caribbean in America.
Health Human Resources
Health workers play an important role in providing services to the population and improving health Outcomes. As per 2017 survey it has been calculated that there are 18 Physicians, 59.7 Nurses and 6.7 Dentists per 10,000 of population in America.
On average across LAC countries, there are 2 doctors per 1 000 population and most of LAC countries stand below the OECD average of 3.5.
Thus, the Continent requires a greater number of Healthcare workers in order to improve the Healthcare Scenario.
Health Financing
A wide range of demographic, socio and economic factors, as well as the financing and organizational arrangements of health determine the overall health spending of the region.
As per the records of 2015, America records, National health expenditure as % of GDP as 5.3 for public and 5.0 for private sector. The average OECD current health spending per capita in 2017 was around four times that of the countries in LAC. Therefore, increased % of Healthcare spending can result in better health infrastructure and can improve the overall health status of the continent.
Therefore, the above-mentioned details highlight the Health scenario of America continent and thus generates the demand of good medical infrastructure in the region. Hospaccx, as a team can help you at every phase in improving the health status by providing healthcare consulting services to assist your dream project. We have healthcare professionals who aims at delivering best possible assistance in various categories and industries related to Healthcare Sector to fulfill the demand of doctors, Hospitals and other Healthcare facilities in the region.
Services offered by Hospaccx are:
- Healthcare Planning and Designing
- Management Consulting Services
- Equipment Planning
- Accreditation
- Operations and Management
- Growth Consulting
- Project Management Consulting
- HR and Training
- Financial Management Consulting
