Sentences with phrase «number of deaths attributed»

More to the point, whereas it is relatively easy to measure the number of deaths attributed to a first - order cause, such as malaria, there have been no deaths anywhere in the world that can be directly attributable to climate change.

Moreover, the number of deaths attributed to climate change is lower than for any other effect of poverty according the UN's very own figures.

Here, again, are the figures from the WHO, showing the number of deaths attributed to a range of conditions across the world:

That 79 percent figure comes from dividing the number of deaths attributed to all sources of predation (33) by the total number of deaths documented over the course of the study (42).

«The number of deaths attributed to an epidemic of Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone stood at 467 by Monday, out of 759 known cases in total, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.»

Pulmonary hypertension is rare — with only about 15 to 50 cases per million people — but the total number of deaths attributed to the disease increased by more than 40 percent in the U.S. between 1980 and 2002, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Physical inactivity contributes to an estimated 5.3 million deaths each year, similar to the number of deaths attributed to tobacco use and obesity, said James F. Sallis, PhD, UC San Diego School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health.

I suspect that the number of deaths attributed communist dictators is a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 90 % death rate of indigenous Americans when Christian explorers arrived in the New World.

Not exact matches

The pace of deaths quickened on Puerto Rico immediately after Hurricane Maria — well beyond the number of deaths officially attributed to the Category 4 storm.

What was not known, however, was that around 46,000 suicides overall were associated with unemployment that year: «Therefore, suicides associated with unemployment totaled a nine-fold higher number of deaths than excess suicides attributed to the most recent economic crisis,» explains Nordt.

In an area like sub-Saharan Africa, where a number of fatal diseases are already rife, it is only with hindsight that some of those deaths can be attributed to HIV.

According to the study, the number of these deaths that can be attributed to changes in the climate since the industrial era is, however, relatively small.

Compared with CIVCAS, they attribute nearly three times the number of civilian deaths caused by military forces, only a small portion of which are Afghan national rather than ISAF forces.

This is more than six times the number of deaths annually attributed to house fires and carbon monoxide poisoning combined.

An alarming number of injuries and deaths that occur in a hospital setting can be attributed to doctor and hospital staff error.