EsosaOrumwese/Tackling-Health-Crises-in-Africa_10Alytics-Hackathon

This is an analysis on healthcare data relating to deaths, causes of deaths, national healthcare expenditure, and distribution of medical doctors in Africa. # Tackling the Health Crises in Africa ### by Esosa Orumwese ## Introduction The lack of access to adequate medical resources and facilities have led to the significant number of deaths. Some of these deaths could have been avoided by timely access to a medical professional or close proximity of hospitals. Health systems across Africa are underfunded and understaffed. Less than half of African citizens (52%) about 615 million people have access to the health care they need, the quality of health services across the continent is generally poor, and family planning needs of half the continent’s women and girls are unmet. This is an analysis on healthcare data relating to deaths, causes of deaths, national healthcare expenditure, and distribution of medical doctors in Africa. ## Summary of Findings * 30.68% of the population in Africa are estimated to have been lost due to health issues which is higher than all other continents. It's worth nothing that South America and Oceania both have low deaths per population. Further research can be done to highlight why this is so and how this can be replicated in the top 3 continents. We'll focus on Africa for this analysis. * Lesotho, Central African Republic and Eritrea are the worst performing countries in African with an estimated deaths per population of 3.51%, 3.03% and 2.88% respectively. Nigeria had the 20th position with 2.05% of its population dead due to health related uses. Libya, Algeria and Tunisia had the least % deaths per population with 0.7%, 0.87% and 1.03% respectively. * For the period of 2000 to 2019, Cardiovascular diseases (15.86%) and HIV/AIDS (13.06%) have been responsible for most health related deaths in Africa. It is shocking to see Neonatal disorders accounts for 10.28% of the total deaths. The least causes of deaths are Drug use disorders, Parkinson's disease and Acute hepatitis which account for just 0.45% of the total deaths. * Lesotho is a country known to be battling the HIV/AIDS epidemic …