Country Epidemiological Profile of Sierra Leone

Country epidemiological
profile of Sierra Leone

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
There is a healthcare facility where individual need to perform better healthcare practices
to take population more healthy. For this, there is need to collect the information about the
country for dynamic profile. This can help you identify the health-related issues within country
that create huge impact on the country health. This can prevent health issues and provide better
health care services to the country. In this, there is discussion about the Sierra Leone where
healthcare system are not dynamic and have different health related issue which are causing
issues in proper development in economy and health. There are different issues like malaria,
diarrheal diseases, stroke, lower respiratory infections and many others that country is
experiencing. There is a country profile that describe about the country health and should
through various data it explains the dynamic effect of healthcare on the country population. In
this report, there is discussion about main health care issues and barriers which describe the
information about the impact of the health care services on country population.
MAIN BODY
Sierra Leone is a Republic of Sierra Leone informally Salone (1). This is the country on
South West Coast of West Africa. It is broad from Guinea of the north east to Liberia to the
southeast. It has a tropical climate with diverse environment having area of 71,740 kilometre per
square. Sierra Leone has total population 64,53,000 and have a gross national income per capital
is 1 (1). It has also the life expectancy at birth male/female is 49/51. This country has the
probability of time between 15 to 60 years male/female of 422/403 per 1000 population. Total
expenditure on Healthcare per capita is 224 which was estimated in 2014 through the World
Health Organisation. According to World Health Organisation total expenditure on health is
about 11.1 % of the total GDP calculated in 2014 (4).