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A paper which looks at the health care system in Saudi Arabia, with reference to two-tier provision, specialist hospitals, rural health promotion and the Red Crescent. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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the Red Sea. According to Coutsoukis (2004), reporting statistics as recorded in 1999, the population is 21,504,613, divided by age structure as follows. 43% 0 - 14 years, 54% 15
- 64 years, 65-plus, 3%. The population growth rate is 3.39%. The birth rate is 37.38 births per 1000 population, and the death rate 4.86 deaths per 1000 population. Population
ratio between males and females is 1.24 male to female. The infant mortality rate is 38.8 deaths per 1000 live births; total fertility rate 6.34 children/ woman; life expectancy at
birth 70.55 years, with females outliving males by 4 years on average. (Coutsoukis, 2004, PG).
Health care facilities, according to Priya (2004) have improved considerably over the past decade, especially in terms of specialised medicine and the
provision of high-tech facilities. The Saudi Embassy (2004) makes the point that the system currently in operation is two-tier, with a network of preventative care facilities throughout the country supported
by mobile clinics supplying the needs of rural areas in terms of basic service, vaccination programmes and so on. The Embassy states that this network has made a considerable contribution
to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, and there is now an immunisation and vaccination programme in operation
which reaches over 90% of Saudi children.
The second tier of the health system consists of hospitals and specialised treatment centres which are centrally located in the cities to improve access. The bed/ patient ratio in
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