Not exact matches
These three interventions could potentially ameliorate at least 20 % of
annual global
deaths from treatable
disease (unfortunately we haven't yet figured out cardiovascular
disease): Lower respiratory infection (list item # 3); Diarrhoeal
disease (list item # 1); HIV / AIDS (list item # 2).
Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an
annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of
death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of
death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where
death rates
from preventable communicable
diseases are declining.2
Reducing ship sulphur emissions cuts these other global health related impacts, too, avoiding about one - third of the
annual cardiovascular
disease and lung cancer
deaths from shipping air pollution.
It is an estimation of the current (as of 2000) existing rate of
annual deaths reasonably attributable to climate change, albeit
from a limited subset of climate - related health impacts: malaria due to an increase in the geographic range of
disease - bearing mosquitoes, malnutrition associated with loss of agricultural productivity, water - borne diarrheal
diseases, and
deaths from flooding, McMichael says.
Experts attribute recent reductions in the
annual death rate
from these
diseases to improvements in dietary choices.
A report by Harvard researchers says trans fat in margarine and other processed foods could be responsible for thousands of the nation's
annual deaths from heart
disease.
However, a little reflection on the plight of the migrant farm workers (life expectancy 49,
annual income for a family of four $ 2,400, poisoning
from pesticide in 15 of every 100 workers,
death from T.B. and other infectious
diseases 260 percent higher than the national average, infant and maternal mortality 125 percent higher, and not even toilets or drinking water in the fields) makes one reluctant to head for the comfort of the car and home.
According to data
from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000
annual deaths can be attributed to global warming,
from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious
disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.