- Sharing thoughts and habits between countries is important in purpose of creating equal health conditions. However, each country's culture should be respected and not involved in an aggressive/ dominative way.
- It is hard to change all the determinants of health. For example, the culture or religion might not be able to be changed, but people's living conditions and social interactions may be more easily improved.
We were using the gapminder to examine the correlations between suicides and economy, children mortality and fertility rate amongst our countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania & Sweden).
Something we noticed was the highest suicide rate in Lithuania, where the income per person was also the lowest. We explained that by the reduce in economy following the independence.
Also we were examining the women's average age at the time of their 1st marriage. In each of our countries the average age has been increasing. This does not have any visible correlation with children's mortality, wherease it correlates with education level and time spend studying.
We got very surprised with the statistics because some of the results were opposite to our expectations.
Question to ask:
- Which one has the strongest effect on childbirth and fertility age: culture, religion, economy or education level?
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