MEDICAL CARE EXPENDITURES: 4.2% of gnp

ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE: 87.6% with access

ACCESS TO SAFE WATER, URBAN: 89% with access

ACCESS TO SAFE WATER, RURAL: 87% with access

CALORIE CONSUMPTION, TOTAL: 2,453 calories per person per day

CALORIE CONSUMPTION, ANIMAL: 397 calories per person per day

CALORIE CONSUMPTION, VEGETABLE: 2,056 calories per person per day

HOSPITAL BEDS: 596 population per bed

PHYSICIANS: 23,520

PHYSICIANS PER CAPITA: 8.4 per 10,000 persons

NURSES: 44,520

NURSES PER CAPITA: 15.9 per 10,000 persons

DENTISTS: 10,080

DENTISTS PER CAPITA: 3.6 per 10,000 persons

CONTRACEPTION USE: 66.1% of married women

MATERNAL DEATHS: 625

MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE: 86.1 deaths per 100,000 live births

TOTAL INFANT MORTALITY: 32,950

INFANT MORTALITY RATE: 37 deaths per 1000 births

MEASLES IMMUNIZATION: 82% of immunized under 12 months

DPT: 87% immunized under 12 months

AIDS: 2,189 cases reported

Health and Welfare

Public health standards are improving, although physicians are still in short supply. Most of the country's physicians work in the larger cities. In the late 1980s Colombia had some 926 hospitals and clinics and 861 health centers. Malaria and yellow fever are still endemic in some parts of the country. A social insurance system provides maternity and dental benefits, accident insurance, workers' compensation and disability, and retirement and survivors' insurance to most of the industrial labor force. The system is financed by contributions from employers, workers, and the government.