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[ St Kitts Statistics ]

Basic Information About St. Kitts and Nevis

For a very complete look at general statistics look to the World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sc.html

Health Information (1)  

The following information is by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program. As it is a temporary on-line searchable source it is not possible to bookmark or hyperlink to the site.  Below is some of the information from the country study.

Morbidity patterns, although statistically less verifiable, also indicated a need to improve health care delivery to infants and young children. In the mid-1980s, gastroenteritis was highly prevalent among young children, and the general level of malnutrition in this group was among the worst of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom--see Appendix C) countries. Low birth weight, a generally accepted measure of malnutrition, was a chronic condition, affecting nearly 12 percent of total births in 1984. The incidence of low weight among children age five and younger was also high, affecting nearly 40 percent of this agegroup in 1984. Combined with other medical problems associated with young children, these nutritional problems made the unusually high infant mortality rate inevitable.

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Health Information (2)  

For detailed health data please go the the PAHO website : http://www.paho.org/English/SHA/prflskn.htm

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