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But now that we are measuring indicators like child mortality more precisely, people are able to see the impact that aid has in stark terms – that it means the difference between, say, giving people access to HIV treatment and letting them die.
While two-thirds of its people still survive on less than $1.25 per day, poverty and child mortality have fallen, while rates of immunization and school enrollment are rising.
How do we weigh improved health and reduced mortality rates for hundreds of thousands of people against the serious consequences of global warming?
Health-related discoveries and advances, for example, have brought massive societal benefits since World War II: increased longevity and reduced child mortality and morbidity, not just higher productivity and GDP.
A mortality survey conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and released earlier this year demonstrates that this conflict is the world’s most deadly crisis since World War II: an estimated 5.4 million people have died as a consequence of the war and its lingering effects in the last decade.
Alongside targets like eliminating poverty and measures to protect the environment is a commitment to reducing mortality caused by NCDs – the first time the UN’s official development agenda has taken direct aim at the problem.
Ensuring the success of the SDGs – including the reduction of mortality from NCDs – will require companies to move beyond traditional philanthropy and forge creative solutions to socioeconomic problems.
Of the 275,000 women and girls who die of cervical cancer every year, 88% live in developing countries, where mortality rates can be more than 20 times higher than in France, Italy, and the United States.
Apart from being a desirable end in itself, female empowerment leads to lower birth rates and child mortality, better education for children, higher female participation in the labor market and politics (and, with it, better representation of women’s concerns), and the alleviation of poverty, especially in developing countries.
Since 1990, preventable child deaths have declined by 50%, and maternal mortality has fallen by 45%.
Brazil has also dramatically improved child health, with mortality rates of young children falling sharply, from 60 per thousand in 1990 to 36 per thousand in 2001.
As a result of government-funded national health insurance, the Nordic countries have a higher life expectancy and a lower infant mortality rate than the US.
Moreover, immunization is considered one of the most cost-effective public-health interventions for reducing child morbidity, mortality, and disability.
The investments have paid off: the global malaria mortality rate fell by 60% between 2000 and 2015.
Serious problems are not confined to the developing world: “deaths of despair,” for example, are raising mortality among white males in the United States.
Social ordering in human society is associated with gradients of disease, with an increasing frequency of mortality and morbidity as one descends the scale of socioeconomic status, which reflects both income and education.
In my own experience, I have seen how Rwanda made investing in social progress – including gender equity, a 61% reduction in child mortality in a single decade, and 95% primary school enrollment – integral to its economic development strategy.
In a paper for the Copenhagen Consensus Center, Canadian researchers found that it is possible to reduce child mortality by two-thirds from the 2010 level and cut the number of deaths of those aged 5-69 by one-third.
Of course, reducing mortality requires far more than just allocating money.
A Mania for Diagnosing Bipolar DisorderPROVIDENCE, RI – During the past few years, many experts have suggested that bipolar disorder – a serious illness resulting in significant psychosocial morbidity and excess mortality – is under-recognized, particularly in patients with major depression.
Small wonder that Indonesia has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in East Asia.
So, while reducing mortality is already reason enough to want to immunize every child on the planet, now we have the added motivation that we are not just saving lives, but also helping to improve many more lives in the process.
In 1960, the world’s countries could be divided into two groups, based on mortality.
Much of this increase in life expectancy around the world is a result of declining child mortality.
Maternal deaths have almost halved; child mortality and malaria deaths have halved; extreme poverty has more than halved.
Some conditions, such as neglected tropical diseases, are unique to developing countries, while others, like AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and maternal mortality, affect poor countries disproportionately.
Why?Life expectancy in the US is relatively high, and neonatal and maternal mortality rates are relatively low.
But conflating car accidents in Ohio with neonatal mortality rates and HIV prevalence merely muddies the global development agenda.
Infant mortality, child mortality, and life expectancy all correlate with rising income.
In four random countries in which the average annual income ranged, in 1990, from $660, to $1,727, to $3,795, to $11,422, infant mortality ranged from 114, to 66, to 34, to 9 (per thousand).
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