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HEALTH
MAJOR DISEASES
✓ Food or waterborne diseases: acquired through eating or drinking for example, bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
✓ Vector borne diseases: are diseases transmitted by insects, especially mosquitos, for example, yellow fever, dengue fever and malaria.
✓ Mumps and Tetanus: Several common diseases in Ecuador continue to take a toll on the population. Mumps and tetanus are just two examples.
✓ Communicable Diseases: Many common diseases in Ecuador are communicable diseases. The World Health Organization reports that 18
percent of all 81,000 deaths in 2016 resulted from communicable diseases and nutritional conditions.
✓ Non-communicable Diseases: Non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease also negatively affect Ecuador’s
population.
✓ Nutrition: Indeed, nutrition or rather, lack thereof, is another one of Ecuador’s major health issues and is often a root cause of many common diseases in
Ecuador.
HEALTH
Health care and health insurance options have changed dramatically at the beginning of 2014 when the government allowed legal residents to join the country’s
Social Security (IESS) health care program for a monthly fee.
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HEALTH CARE IN ECUADOR
Annual funding has been doubled for public health care from previous levels. A 2014 Bloomberg survey of overall health care efficiency, factoring both cost and quality, listed Ecuador 20th in the world. New public hospitals and clinics have been built while existing facilities have been
upgraded.
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PRIVATE HEALTH
The quality of private care in Ecuador can range from very good to non-existent. In general, private physicians are very well trained in most of the United States.
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