Even though technology, wealth, and prosperity in most of the world's 
countries have continued to increase and expand, many underdeveloped 
countries still lack enough funding to provide their people with basic 
health care.

Recently, analysis was conducted on data collected from the World Almanac 
and Book of Facts 1993 (New York: Pharos Books, 1993).  More specifically, 
for each of the forty largest countries in the world (according to 1990 
population figures), data was collected from the Almanac on each country's 
life expectancy at birth (for both males and females), the number of people 
per television set, and the number of people per physician.  The goal of 
the analysis was to determine the relationship, if any, between life 
expectancy and people per physician or people per television.

The female life expectancy of over the 40 countries ranges from 50 years of 
age to nearly 80 years of age, while male life expectancy extends from 50 
years of age to 80 years of age.  The majority of the countries reported a 
factor of between 1 and 10,000 people per physician, but there were 4 
countries that reported up to 40,000 people per physician.

Graphical analysis suggests a strong relationship between life expectancy 
and people per physician in which as people per physician increases, life 
expectancy decreases.  Analysis also suggested that if there were only one 
person per physician, the male life expectancy would be 96 and a quarter 
years.  (Note: I would drop that sentence :), Howard)
On the same note, as people per physician increases by 10,000 
people, male life expectancy decreases by almost 4 and half years.

Conclusions from the analysis suggest that these larger countries need 
funding in order to lower the amount of people per physician, and thus 
increase the number of physicians per person.  This will, in turn, increase 
life expectancies. (Note: I think that statement is a bit to strong, Howard)
A similar relationship between life expectancy and 
people per television arose, suggesting that the wealthier countries that 
could afford more physicians per person could also afford more televisions 
per person.  Unfortunately this analysis cannot be generalized to all the 
countries in the world because the selection of the countries for this 
experiment was not random.