Global health disparities in high-resource settings

Abstract

Living in a high resource country or continent does not render one immune to pathology. There is no doubt that the burden of poor health falls on low and middle income countries. According to the WHO the average life expectancy in low income countries is 62 years while in high income countries it is 81 years (World Health Organization 2016). A child from Sierra Leone has a life expectancy of 50 years, while a baby born in Japan on average, will live to 84 years of age (World Health Organization 2016).