Health Services Flashcards
Life expectancy:
Increased from 43.9 age to 78.5 age.
80% increase in life expectancy
Better than world average
Fertility rate:
80% drop in fertility from 7 to 1.4
Worse than world average of 2.5
History of medical services in UAE:
No proper structured health institutes till 1960s
No hospitals or authorities to manage healths services
Basic and traditional methods were used
Support from other nations like Kuwait and Iran
Missionaries in the region helped
Mobile trucks offered health services around the country
Traditional medicine:
Herbs
Bone fracture out in open clinic
Hijamah - Chinese medicine stuffs
Ignited iron
Kaee
More history: Ajman
Missionaries visited and started medical services in Sharjah and Ajman
Ajman had a hospital (30-50 patients a day)
Dr Zulakha established clinic in Ajman
Iranian hospital
Dubai clinics
Dubai clinic established with approval of British by Mohammed yaseen (Indian dr)
Healthcare centre in Dubai opened
Al maktoum hospital opened (biggest one - 157 beds)
Iranian hospital
Sharjah clinic
American missionary clinic - Sarah hospital - still exists
Al ain clinics
American missionaries - oasis hospital (Kennedy hospital after dr in charge locally)
RAK and Fujairah clinic
2 opened one each
Abu Dhabi
Small outpatient
Led to ruler open hospital - central hospital
Number of hospital:
143 total in 2017
98 private
55 public
More private than public
Kuwait helped who with hospitals:
Ajman Sharjah and Dubai
Number of clinics and health centres
5K total
4.8 K private
149 public
Public v private:
8K physicians v 14K total 23K
841 dentists v 4.8 K total 5.6 K
Pharmacists 2K v 6 K total 8 k
Nurses 20 K v 33K total 54K
Paramedic 9K v 13K total 22K
Most hospitals where?
Abu Dhabi then Dubai
Least hospitals where?
UAQ
Ajman
Hospital beds number:
13K total
7K public
5K private
More public than private
More private hospitals?
Abu Dhabi
More public hospitals?
Abu Dhabi
Fujairah RAK UAQ and Ajman have what in common aboit healthcare?
More public than private
Beds most ?
Abu Dhabi then Dubai
Only public hospitals
UAQ
Most public beds
Abu Dhabi
Most clinics?
Dubai
Most public clinics?
Abu dhabi
Most private clinics?
Dubai
Private v public clinics
Very few public clinics, mostly private throughout region
Inhabitants per hospital:
Dubai has most then Sharjah then Ajman
Least Fujairah
Inhabitants per bed
Most Sharjah and Ajman
Least UAQ
Inhabitants per clinic
Sharjah mostly least Fujairah
Beds per 100K inhabitants:
127 - bad
Most private beds?
Abu Dhabi
