Johnston FH, Henderson SB, Chen Y, Randerson JT, Marlier M, Defries RS, Kinney P, Bowman DMJS, Brauer M.
Estimated global mortality due to smoke from landscape fires.
Johnston, F. H., S. B. Henderson, Y. Chen, J. T. Randerson, M. Marlier, R. S. DeFries, P. Kinney, D. M. J. S. Bowman, and M. Brauer, 2012:
Estimated global mortality attributable to smoke from landscape fires.
Johnston, F. H., S. B. Henderson, Y. Chen, J. T. Randerson, M. Marlier, R. S. DeFries, P. Kinney, D. M. J. S. Bowman, and M. Brauer, 2012:
Estimated global mortality attributable to smoke from landscape fires.
Not exact matches
Home birth is uncommon in the United Kingdom and uncertainty exists about its safety.1 2 Almost all
mortality figures available nationally1 provide merely a single
global figure for planned and unplanned home births, though the constituent rates differ greatly.3 The only recent figures for planned home birth in England and Wales relating to 19794 and 19935 provide an inaccurately low
estimate of risk because it was not possible to account for those mothers who originally booked to have a home delivery but ended up delivering in hospital.
Finally, an
estimate of the burden of alcohol - attributable breast cancer incidence and
mortality by means of a Population - Attributable Fraction methodology (using data on alcohol consumption from the
Global Information System on Alcohol and Health, and data on cancer incidence and
mortality from the GLOBOCAN database) showed that an
estimated 144,000 breast - cancer cases and 38,000 breast - cancer deaths globally in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, with 18.8 % of these cases and 17.5 % of these deaths affecting women who were light drinkers.
Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Peter Byass, Umeå Centre for
Global Health Research says «Undoubtedly child
mortality is falling, and the world should be proud of this progress» but he adds»... Of the
estimated six million under - 5 child deaths in 2015, only a small proportion were adequately documented at the individual level, with particularly low proportions evident in low - income and middle - income countries, where most childhood deaths occur... That six million under - 5 children continue to die every year in our 21st century world is unacceptable, but even worse is that we seem collectively unable to count, and hence be accountable for, most of those individual deaths.»
To make
mortality estimates, the researchers took temperature projections from 16
global climate models, downscaled these to Manhattan, and put them against two different backdrops: one assuming rapid
global population growth and few efforts to limit emissions; the other, assuming slower growth, and technological changes that would decrease emissions by 2040.
Peng, R. D., J. F. Bobb, C. Tebaldi, L. McDaniel, M. L. Bell, and F. Dominici, 2011: Toward a quantitative
estimate of future heat wave
mortality under
global climate change.
Current best
global estimates suggest that forest
mortality is outpacing benefits from increased tree productivity due to increased atmospheric CO2 (Allen et al. 2010), signifying an overarching contraction of forest range (Dobrowski et al. 2015).
According to an assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, «the contribution of the livestock sector to
global greenhouse gas emissions exceeds that of transportation,» and a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
estimated the impact of a
global move to a plant - based diet could reduce
global mortality by 6 to 10 percent and reduce food - related greenhouse gas emissions by 29 to 70 percent.
[9:10 a.m. Insert More of the logic in expediting a shift from coal to natural gas in developing countries comes from the latest pollution
mortality estimates, as reported in the
Global Burden of Disease study in The Lancet.]
Peng, R. D., J. F. Bobb, C. Tebaldi, L. McDaniel, M. L. Bell, and F. Dominici, 2011: Toward a quantitative
estimate of future heat wave
mortality under
global climate change.
Each stacked bar gives
estimates of the additional
global mortality due to climate change on the top, and that due to other non-climate change - related factors on the bottom.
The entire bar gives the total
global mortality estimate.
In Part 1 of this series we saw that even if one gives credence to the oft - repeated but flawed
estimates from the World Health Organization of the present - day contribution of climate change to
global mortality, other factors contribute many times more to the
global death toll.
Using data from 133 countries, the WHO1
estimated that violence, with all categories combined (self - directed, interpersonal and collective), accounts for 2.5 % of
global mortality, or 1.3 million deaths annually.