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Most of these deaths occur in Asia and Africa, with India alone accounting for one-third of the world’s total mortality from rabies.
Malawi is one of the world’s least developed countries, with an infant mortality rate of 94 per thousand and a life expectancy at birth of 41 years.
Within the next five years, there could be more than one million cancer deaths annually in Africa, a surge in mortality that would make cancer one of the continent’s top killers.
Every percentage-point fall in growth has direct social consequences, whether on nutrition levels, infant mortality, or school attendance.
Killing Non-Communicable DiseasesSEATTLE – Over the last 25 years, thanks partly to a coordinated global effort to fight infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and polio, childhood mortality rates have been reduced by 50%, and average life expectancy has increased by more than six years.
Child mortality rates have declined in all Central European countries over the past 20 years, especially in Poland, where the rate fell from 17 per 10,000 live births to seven.
In Ukraine, by contrast, under-five child mortality rates have fallen only slightly, from 25 per 10,000 live births to 24, while life expectancy has declined from 70 years to 68.
The SDGs replaced the Millennium Development Goals, which comprised eight clear, simple promises such as halving global poverty, reducing child mortality, and getting children into school.
First, the primary concern should not be with reducing disease prevalence, but rather disease burden – the health impact as measured by disability and premature mortality.
More recently, a report by the Council on Foreign Relations indicated that mortality from NCDs for people under 60 is more than three times higher in low-income countries than in high-income countries.
We need to accept human mortality and, as a matter of both practice and policy, concentrate on improving older people’s quality of life.
STANFORD – Cancer is sometimes thought of as a disease of wealthier countries, but it is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in poorer ones as well.
Haiti ’s infrastructure was meager before the earthquake (hence the shocking mortality rate), and most of that is now rubble.
We are likely to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of cutting TB prevalence and mortality in half by 2015, from 1990 levels.
Official aid from donor countries has helped to halve extreme poverty and child mortality, and it has driven progress on many other fronts as well.
Even as better standards of care continue to cut maternal mortality, cervical cancer deaths are expected to rise further.
With few exceptions, demographers and epidemiologists have not applied their expertise to making rigorous, credible estimates of civilian mortality and morbidity.
Another approach estimates the total change in mortality that the war caused (including deaths due to the war’s direct and indirect effects) by calculating the change in the death rate from the pre-war period.
This requires data upon which to base the rise in mortality, usually derived by conducting a household survey on a random sample of the population.
Aside from the risks to interviewers collecting such data during a conflict, these include the selection bias of households in the sample, a lack of credible population data to which to apply the changed mortality rates, and mistaken or misleading accounts by participants.
The authors used crude death rates (CDR’s), which reflect the number of deaths per thousand people, in explaining the rise in mortality.
But demographers rarely use CDR’s, thinking instead in terms of age- and sex-specific mortality rates, usually summarized as “life expectancy.”
If the pre-war mortality rate was too low and/or if the population estimates were too high – because, for example, they ignored outflows of refugees from Iraq – the resulting estimates of the number of Iraqi “excess deaths” would be inflated.
This has huge implications for the reduction of childhood mortality.
The world would halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger and living in extreme poverty, achieve universal primary education, and dramatically reduce child mortality by 2015.
Child mortality and extreme poverty have been halved.
India was long known in the world for its rapid population growth, high fertility, high infant mortality, and risk of famine.
Mass illiteracy and high rates of infant mortality contribute to rapid population growth, by inducing families to have huge numbers of children to “beat the odds” in order to ensure that some children survive to adulthood.
The eight original MDGs, which include reducing child mortality and achieving universal primary education, are lauded for their simplicity and measurability.
Infant mortality has been cut in half, more citizens than ever enjoy educational opportunities, and electric, telephone, and sanitation services have expanded to serve a greater number of people.
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