Melissa Azua's SDG: Good Health & Well-Being

Hello, everyone and welcome, back to my BLOG #4! This week I will be focusing on a country very dear to my heart and that is Mexico! Its location lies between Belize and the United States while also bordering the North Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico (CIA, 2018). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Mexico has a population of about 125 million people (WHO, n.d). Their life expectancy is 74 for males and 79 for females (WHO, n.d). Out of all of the countries that I have researched thus far, Mexico is the closest one reaching the United States’ life expectancy of 79 years of age. Even though this country has a decent life expectancy rate, they are far from meeting the SDG #3 requirements! SDG #3 focuses on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Maternal mortality is very important to focus on because it reflects the social development level of a country. The maternal mortality rate is 38/100,000 live births and in 2015, the Mille...

Figure 1.  Meyer, Z. (2018, November 21).  Yemen: 85,000 children may have died from starvation [Photograph]. Hello everyone and welcome to my BLOG post #3!              Today I will be focusing on Yemen, a country that joined the United Nations in 1947 (United Nations, n.d). Yemen is located in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian sea, Gulf of Aden and between Oman and Saudi Arabia (CIA, 2018). According to the Central Intelligence Agency, Yemen has a population of about 28,667,230 (CIA, 2018). Their life expectancy is 64 for males and 68 for females, while the United States’ overall life expectancy is 79 years of age (CIA, 2018). Yemen is placed at number 176 in comparison to the rest of the world and since their life expectancy is about 10 years less than the United States, it expresses some concerns and disadvantages in this country. My SDG is all about health and well-being, which includes child ...