Talk:Health in North Korea/Archive 1

Completely Incoherent
This article repeatedly presents completely opposite claims with no explanation resolving them. Somebody should probably delete this entry entirely or start over from scratch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.174.42.22 (talk) 15:11, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Neutrality/Factual Accuracy
The author has cited one source for a variety of different promotional statements about the North Korean health care system. The photos attached to this article also have conflicting descriptions. For example; one photo claims to be depicting a maternity ward, however it is clear the facility is a dental facility. Please help by contributing accurate content to help expand this article in a manner that depicts the reality of the situation in North Korea.

Unrepresentative Picture
The picture shows what appears to be a highly professional well run health care service which is completely at odds with what the article describes. I'm aware that it's unlikely that there are many (if any) pictures of a more typical hospital or ward in North Korea but if we can find one, wouldn't that be preferable?
 * As a leftover from when the country was genuinely attempting socialism, healthcare is one of the few well-run systems in North Korea. Only Cuba has anything that even comes close in the developing world. That picture is probably actually representative of what the North Korean healthcare system looks like. 68.145.210.83 (talk) 06:30, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Out of date
The information here is about 10 years old, but is presented in the present tense.--Jack Upland (talk) 09:06, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

HIV
The material taken from the HIV article says: "Newest data concerning the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is from 2004, and no newer figures have been made available". The source is a fact sheet from 2006 says, "There is no recent data available on the HIV/AIDS situation in the country". However, it does cite a UNAIDS estimate from 2006. It also says, "To document the prevalence rate of HIV infection in pregnant women, the government has put in place measures to monitor the HIV/AIDS situation. The prevention and control of HIV/AIDS Strategy 2003-2007 outlines the framework for this. According to the government, no case of HIV-positive persons has been recorded till date", citing a source from 2004. The UN report of the same year merely estimates fewer than 100 cases, which is hardly precise data. I don't think the source (from 2006) says that the newest data is from 2004, and if it did, that statement would be out of date. In fact, as the cited UPI report says, in 2014 North Korea still stated there are no cases. And the WHO office in Pyongyang still does. If there are no cases — and there is really nothing to contradict this that I have seen — then there can be no newer data, apart to say that there are still no cases. I don't think we should assume that the North Korean government and the WHO are lying without any evidence that this is true.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:47, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Deportation of HIV positive people

 * North Korea deports visitors upon discovery of HIV status.

This comes from the UNAIDS Global Report of 2012. However, NK is just listed among countries that do that. Is there any case where North Korea actually did that?--Jack Upland (talk) 09:08, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Improve this article
I am working on a university project that requires me to edit this stub page as it was requested in the WikiProject.

I am working on a Wikipedia project titled 'Obesity in South Korea'. I would like to improve my page by adding a more comprehensive background or overview section. Here are some of the links of sources that I would be using for my revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Canada

It would be greatly appreciated if you could give me some feedback on improvements that I can make on my page overall.

--Tealdrizzle (talk) 05:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC).
 * This page is about health in North Korea. If you meant South Korea, it's this way: Talk:Health in South Korea.
 * But if you have some suggestions concerning this page, we'll hear you out. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 14:03, 18 September 2018 (UTC)