Sentences with phrase «global mortality rates»

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

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The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

It has been projected that, on present rates of fertility, mortality and migration, the global population will have reached eight billion people by 2025.

Implementing the Global Strategy effectively is essential to increase breastfeeding rates: especially exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, and to reach Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 which aims to reduce under five mortality by two thirds.

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.

Provision of effective maternity care is a vital global policy goal as governments seek not only to reduce mortality and morbidity rates [1] but also to ensure that maternal and newborn health and wellbeing are improved.

The research, funded by the Medical Research Council, involved creating the first global model of how mortality rates change with hot or cold weather.

Also explore the interactive version of the visualization for the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in relation to GDP, education, neonatal mortality, skilled birth attendance, and total fertility rate by country (Global), 1980 - 2008.

Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer death and can be considered a global lethal disease because incidence and mortality rates are nearly identical.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

A government program to provide health insurance for catastrophic illness to households below the poverty line in Karnataka, lowered both mortality rates and out - of - pocket expenses for the residents, according to a recent evaluation published in the leading global health journal The BMJ.

By calculating the amount spent on researching respiratory infections and their mortality rates, the study authors were able to assess UK public and charitable sector investment against the global burden of the diseases.

Both chemicals are linked to global climate change, lung disease, and increased mortality rates.

Diarrhea is a global disease with the high morbidity and mortality rate in children.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

His research explores the impact of global warming on the economy, including labor productivity, mortality rate, and agriculture yields, among other economic factors.

Between 2000 and 2012, the global malaria mortality rate was reduced by 45 %.

Moreover, the largest and most global epidemiological study, recently published in The Lancet, found that those who ate the largest amount of saturated fats had significantly reduced rates of mortality and that a low consumption of these fats (6 - 7 % of calories, as commonly recommended for people with heart disease) was associated with increased risk of stroke.

The most comprehensive global evaluation of fisheries bycatch impacts on large marine species, published this month in the journal Ecosphere, revealed that sea turtle populations in the East Pacific, North Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, and Mediterranean face higher bycatch and mortality rates.

An illustrative BOTE calculation: If we approximate global population now to 7.5 billion, and assume a crude mortality rate of about 8 per thousand, then about 60 million people die each year.

This is a time for optimism and celebration of the remarkable gains to which the MDGs have contributed worldwide, including: decreasing the global share of people living on less than $ 1.25 per day by more than two - thirds since 1990; more than halving the rate of child mortality; and reaching gender parity in primary - school enrollment.

His research explores the impact of global warming on the economy, including labor productivity, mortality rate, and agriculture yields, among other economic factors.

Extensive prior work has demonstrated the utility of the global health ratings in predicting hospitalization and mortality.40

Introduction Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use contribute significantly to global rates of morbidity and mortality.