Sentences with phrase «global deaths»

Up to 60 % of global deaths are related to preventable and reversible chronic diseases that can be improved with a skilled nutrition and therapy approach.
Poor sanitation combines with a lack of safe drinking water and inadequate hygiene to contribute to the terrible global death toll.
In new estimates released today, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died — one in eight of total global deaths — as a result of air pollution exposure.
In new estimates released, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths — as a result of air pollution exposure.
Besides retrofitting two - strokes in the Philippines, the environmental non-profit will also be collaborating with the U.K. - based Shell Foundation to reduce the number of global deaths caused by indoor air pollution — or more precisely, the smoke the billows forth from traditional fires and stoves used in homes in developing countries — by distributing cleaner - burning cook stoves.
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).
Worldwide, the prevalence of stroke stood at 33 million, with 16.9 million people suffering their first stroke, and is the second - leading cause of global death behind heart disease.
And green ideologues work tirelessly to ensure that the callous, needless global death toll continues to rise.
UNEP News Center: In new estimates released today, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died — one in eight of total global deaths as a result of air pollution exposure.
[Notably, all extreme weather events (whether due to climate change or the normally abnormal climatic variability) contribute all of 0.03 % of global deaths on average.
Indur Goklany, a US - based expert on weather - related catastrophes, charted global deaths through the 20th century from «extreme» weather events.
There, she studied the contribution to global death tolls, and their trajectories over time, of cardiometabolic risk factors (including high blood pressure and obesity) and undernutrition.
The most common diseases under this category is bronchitis or pneumonia which is responsible for 16 % of global deaths of children younger than five.
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that the global death toll from the 2009 pandemic was more than 284,000.
Government commissions in the US and the UK have reported that if we don't find new ways to treat infections that are resistant to antibiotics, we could face a global death rate from bacteria of 10 million a year by 2050 — a higher toll, for example, than from cancer or diabetes.
Compared to the global death rate due to all causes, the rate of deaths due to natural disasters has remained quite constant.
According to the World Health Organization's Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health, around 6 % of global deaths are caused by drinking alcohol, the majority from alcoholic cirrhosis — scarring of the liver as a result of continuous, long - term liver damage.
Sixty percent of all global deaths are caused by chronic illness, and many more people are suffering with chronic morbidity from chronic pain conditions, chronic fatigue, and the secondary effects on digestion, energy, attention, sleep, and comfort caused by...
The paper cites research from Emory University School of Medicine that found that «deaths due to diarrhea, malaria and nutritional deficiencies among children younger than 5 accounted for 38 %, 65 % and 48 % of all global deaths, respectively, in 2015.»
Despite using the World Health Organization's scientifically suspect estimates of the present - day death toll «attributable» to climate change, we saw in Part 1 that climate change contributed less than 0.3 % of the global death toll.
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.
He has demonstrated, for example, that, largely because of mankind's utilization of fossil fuels, global deaths and death rates related to extreme weather have declined by a remarkable 93 % and 98 %, respectively, since the 1920s.
Unfortunately this could be a global death sentence.
A report from WHO showed that respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, categorised as lifestyle ailments, are a major threat across the globe — accounting for 38 million global deaths, annually.
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