Mortality
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For example, the rate of child
mortality
has fallen from 93 per 1,000 births to close to 40 since 1990.
A UNESCO project demonstrated that “each additional year of a mother’s schooling reduces the probability of the infant
mortality
rate by 5% to 10%”The health advantages of education extend beyond childbirth and infant health.
As she put it in her acceptance speech: “If someone told you that, with just 12 years of investment of about $1 billion a year, you could, across the developing world, increase economic growth, decrease infant mortality, increase agricultural yields, improve maternal health, improve children’s health and nutrition, increase the numbers of children – girls and boys – in school, slow down population growth, increase the number of men and women who can read and write, decrease the spread of AIDS, add new people to the work force, and be able to improve their wages without pushing others out of the work force, what would you say?
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan put it simply: “No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower infant and maternal mortality, improve nutrition, promote health, including the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and increase the chances of education for the next generation.
Trumpism taps into this sense of national mortality; here is someone who thinks he can do something about it.
Since then, the population has fallen by millions more, owing to Russia’s high
mortality
rate, especially among men.
Most of the people over whom Obiang rules live in extreme poverty, with an average life expectancy of 49 years and an infant
mortality
rate of 87 per 1,000 live births (in other words, more than one child in twelve dies before its first birthday).
Likewise, Uttar Pradesh’s dismal social indicators – it has India’s worst infant and under-five
mortality
rates – will have negative externalities for the country as a whole.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), despite this colossal spending, America lags behind Japan and several European countries in standard measures of health: infant mortality, life expectancy at birth, and deaths that could have been prevented by appropriate medical care.
For example, they call for reducing by 2015 the proportion of the world’s population that was chronically under-nourished in 1990, and for cutting the child
mortality
rate by three quarters.
And yet, while
mortality
risk relative to population size is falling, the lives of more than 200 million people continue to be disrupted each year by disasters.
During and after the wildfires, Russia’s
mortality
rate rose 18%.
According to the ILO, dangerous machinery, long working hours, and exposure to toxic pesticides makes farm work one of the world’s deadliest jobs; more than 170,000 agricultural workers are killed every year on unsafe farms, twice the
mortality
rate of any other industry.
For example, anti-arrhythmic drugs were prescribed widely – with the United States Food and Drug Administration’s approval – to heart-attack victims for more than a decade, under the assumption that reducing heart-rhythm abnormalities would decrease
mortality
rates.
Adopting a balanced, largely plant-based diet, with minimal consumption of red and processed meat, would help conserve natural resources, contribute to the fight against human-induced global warming, and reduce people’s risk of diet-related chronic diseases and even cancer
mortality.
Integration of services for infectious diseases and primary care has contributed to some of the steepest declines in child and maternal
mortality
ever observed.
Global hopes to reduce child and maternal mortality, combat HIV/AIDS, and achieve universal primary education are damaged by the fact that one in seven girls in the developing world – and it is overwhelmingly girls who suffer this fate – are married before they reach age 15.
Infant
mortality
fell by 22% per year, and even faster for children under 5.Immunization rates rose by almost 5% per year.
For example, recent data show that even a moderate deficiency of Vitamin A results in higher
mortality.
South Asia has the world’s highest rates of malnutrition and the largest number of undernourished children, who have higher
mortality
rates, lower cognitive performance, and a greater likelihood of dropping out of school.
Never mind that rates of maternal
mortality
throughout the region are extremely high.
With unsafe abortion a major cause of maternal mortality, particularly among adolescents and young women, the services EVA provides could not be more important.
In per capita terms,
mortality
is also set to reach high levels in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus region, and other parts of Asia, such as South Korea, where aging populations are highly vulnerable to air pollution.
We feel an especially strong sense of urgency as we approach the deadline of 2015 for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, and child
mortality.
To be sure, complex issues like poverty, gender discrimination, and poor infrastructure also contribute to maternal
mortality.
Unlike many other countries, the US has actually experienced an increase in maternal deaths in recent years, and now has the highest rate of maternal
mortality
among developed countries.
Between 2010 and 2015, maternal
mortality
in the state nearly doubled, and women in Texas are now more likely to die from childbirth than women in Tajikistan.
Where half of the girls received secondary education, the average was just three children, and child and infant
mortality
were much lower.
While measures like improved early-warning systems have reduced disaster-related
mortality
rates, economic losses continue to soar, as investors, struggling to understand underlying risk factors, set aside common sense in favor of short-term expediency in land use and construction.
Adult male
mortality
is much higher than in the rest of Europe, and it has not been improving.
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