Sentences with phrase «global mortality»

The entire bar gives the total global mortality estimate.

However, global mortality remains high for many patients with advanced tumors.

for article Future global mortality from changes in air pollution attributable to climate change.

Consequently, global mortality rates from malaria and extreme weather events, for instance, have been reduced at least five-fold in the past 60 years.

«Diarrheal illness is a leading cause of global mortality and morbidity,» said Richards - Kortum, director of the Rice 360 ˚: Institute for Global Health Technologies.

The research found that a worldwide switch to diets that rely less on meat and more on fruit and vegetables could reduce global mortality by up to 10 % and food - related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 70 % by 2050.

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.

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.

Activity guidelines The World Health Organisation (WHO) said in its pamphlet «Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health» that «physical inactivity is now identified as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality.»

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.

for article Corrigendum: Future global mortality from changes in air pollution attributable to climate change.

Infectious diseases such as HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis continue to rank high among global mortality factors, especially in developing countries, and systemic inflammation has been identified as a root case of many chronic disorders in the developed world.

Disruptions and declines in animal pollinators could increase global mortality by 2.7 percent, leading to 1.4 million more deaths annually.

Previous epidemiological studies were then used to assess how the specific concentrations of air pollution from the climate models related to current global mortality rates.

Researchers don't expect the discovery to have much impact on global mortality from rotavirus infections.

In this figure, the left-most bar shows cumulative global mortality for the three risk categories in 1990 (the baseline year used in the FTAs).

Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower average per 100,000 global mortality between 2020 - 2030 compared to 2005 - 2015

The increase in risk factors, including abdominal circumference, depression, diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity, excess weight, and smoking — along with physical inactivity — provides the perfect storm for developing heart disease, which is one of the leading causes of death in the world, representing 31 % of global mortality.

Some 10 \ % of 15 - and 16 - year - olds self - harm, the global mortality rate from suicide works out as approximately one death every forty seconds and the rate is rising, but it would be heartless and inhumane to suggest that vulnerable people should be taught how to cut themselves safely or to commit suicide in a way that inconveniences others as little as possible.

This study should «not in any way bill itself, or be billed as, a global mortality study of the Darfur genocide,» says Sudan researcher Eric Reeves of Smith College.

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.