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To make this case, health-care providers will need to improve their collection and analysis of data on surgical outcomes, which would increase transparency on mortality and morbidity and strengthen overall accountability.
According to a major study by the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton last year, the mortality rate for middle-aged, less-educated white men in the US has been surging, in what some observers have called a wave of “despair deaths.”
Despite global population growth, under-five mortality rates fell from more than 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010, and progress is accelerating.
Sub-Saharan Africa – the region with the highest under-five mortality rate – doubled its average reduction rate, from 1.2% annually in 1990-2000 to 2.4% in 2000-2010.
Furthermore, estimated malaria incidence has declined by 17% worldwide; malaria mortality rates have decreased by one-quarter since 2000; and reported malaria cases fell by more than half from 2000 to 2010 in 43 of 99 countries with ongoing malaria transmission.
In fact, his efforts to strengthen Ethiopia’s health system played a crucial role in more than doubling the percentage of Ethiopian women with access to contraception, and in reducing maternal mortality by 75%.
Consider infant mortality.
This makes it all the more difficult for health services in LMICs – which are often under-resourced, equipped solely for acute care, and overwhelmed by high maternal and child mortality and the persistent battle against infectious diseases – to address hypertension and other non-communicable diseases.
The claim sounded credible until the subsequent survey showed that the area’s crude mortality rate had actually risen to six times the normal base rate.
As a result, the mortality rate for children in South Asia today is almost twice as high as it was in the US 50 years ago.
Three things:First, we know that giving birth for the first time when younger carries a cost in increased infant mortality, but modern medicine and hygiene have strikingly reduced infant mortality, reducing the cost of younger age at first birth.
When child mortality is reduced, poor families choose to have fewer children, because they are more confident that their children will survive to adulthood.
These ambitious targets – ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters to achieving universal primary schooling and halting (and beginning to reverse) the spread of HIV/AIDS – are supposed to be met by the end of 2015.
But it is doubtful that even well-intentioned policymakers have a good handle on, say, how to raise secondary-school completion rates sustainably or reduce maternal mortality.
But no industry has provided more party-line disinformation over the years – and contributed to more morbidity, mortality, public cost, and economic havoc – than the processed food industry.
If true, drug-induced death would qualify as the fourth or fifth leading cause of death (depending on which mortality estimates are used).
And while the Millennium Development Goals have produced remarkable progress in key areas – including education, infant mortality, and diseases like malaria and tuberculosis – there is still a long way to go.
This simple idea has been applied to myriad human development issues – from public health to infant mortality.
Similarly, the rotavirus vaccine could be used to prevent outbreaks of diarrheal diseases, a chief cause of child mortality in developing countries and a major driver of antibiotic use.
Denial of the fear of mortality and projection of the suppressed wish to transcend nature are the marks of a masked effort to create a biomedical science at war with its own stated purposes.
On the contrary, they may be harmful, leading to an increased risk of mortality in people consuming them.
While my country, Rwanda, has reduced child mortality by 70% over the past decade, the rate of stunting remains high, with 44% of children under the age of five chronically malnourished.
Any government expects its popularity to erode, especially in a society with as many intractable problems as Venezuela: unemployment, crime, high infant mortality and so on.
The MDGs comprised eight sweeping statements of ambition: the world decided to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality rates; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development.
We aimed, for example, to halve the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day; to achieve decent employment for women, men, and young people; to reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality rate; and to reduce by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate.
Why aim to reduce poverty by half, maternal mortality by three-quarters, and under-five mortality by two-thirds?
But cultural questions must also be addressed, because gender discrimination is the most important cause of maternal mortality.
Maternal mortality is a sinister consequence of this complex situation.
The fight against maternal mortality in Afghanistan must become a global priority.
That’s the number of children’s lives saved since 1990 by progressive reductions in the rate of child mortality.
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