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Iraq

Country Profile
WHO Statistical Profile

http://www.who.int/countries/irq/en/

UNDP Statistical Profile

http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/IRQ

World Bank Statistical Profile

http://data.worldbank.org/country/iraq

Country Studies

  • The burden of disease (2012) attributable to communicable diseases is 19.1%, noncommunicable diseases 61.6% and injuries 19.2%. The share of out-of-pocket expenditure is 41.0% (2013) and the health workforce density (2014) is 8.0 physicians per 10 000 population and 24.0 nurses per 10 000 population.

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  • "The health care system—a hospital-oriented, capital-intensive model that requires largescale imports of medicines, medical equipment and even health workers—is inefficient and access is inequitable. Although the system ran fairly effectively, little health service data was collected. This led to a lack of cost-effective public health interventions, and services only partially matched population health needs. To this day, the levels and distribution, of available human resources for health is inadequate".

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