"If you are living in a regional community where there are very high rates of suicide over a long period of time, it is going to probably create a sense of reality: 'This is what happens here,' " he said.
The over-incarceration of Aboriginal people means that more of us are in an environment where there are very high rates of hepatitis C. We're more likely to inject drugs and share equipment when we do inject drugs, and our historic disconnection from the health sector means that people aren't getting treatment and they aren't being monitored.
The pastors, for example, provided subsistence such as food, clothing and accommodation in return for farming on their land, offering one option for survival in a region where there are very high rates of youth unemployment, particularly for young men.
"Compared to loss of other species, it's very high rate of loss," said Wembridge.
In the period surrounding the 1918 pandemic, hygienic conditions were poor and the infant mortality rate was very high (rate among children <1 year of age was 25%300%) (21 ).
There's very high rates of diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease.
But he also said that "although there were very high rates of return being earned in this industry — we'd heard that companies were making forty and fifty per cent — a company like Citigroup could not, from a public-relations viewpoint, go out there and maximize return on capital, nor would we want to".
STDs are a major problem in D.C., where more than 16,000 people live with HIV/AIDS; as of 2009, according to AVERT, "there were very high rates of primary and secondary syphilis (27.5 per 100,000 population), chlamydia (1,106.6 per 100,000) and gonorrhea (432.7 per 100,000 population) reported in Washington D.C".
In conclusion, this study shows there were very high rates of patient-physician satisfaction and treatment adherence among GERD patients taking a PPI (all ~90%), and that there was moderate patient-physician agreement for these parameters.
Taxes are very high; the rate of inflation for the year is more than 20%.
