Rating
Health
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Leader: This activity involves analyzing a map of Africa.
You may print a map here.
Please keep participants to five minutes in the first
part of the activity and facilitate group discussion for
the last 10 minutes. |
Begin by
studying this choropleth map of sub-Saharan Africa. Each color
corresponds to a World Health Rating determined by the following
demographic factors: life expectancy for men and women, infant
mortality, crude death rate, people per physician, percentage
of the population under 15 years of age, and per capita Gross
National Product (GNP). The higher the rating, the healthier
a country's population. For example, the United States has a
health rating of 9, Gabon has a rating of 4, and Malawai has
a rating of 1.3.
Working
individually, take five minutes to briefly write down
what you can surmise from the map, addressing these questions:
