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.
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.
The most common diseases under this category is bronchitis or pneumonia which is responsible for 16 %
of global deaths of children younger than five.
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.
Not exact matches
Of the more than 600,000
global road traffic deaths that occur each year, China's comprise more than a third, with 220,000, according to Bloomberg's Global Road Safety Pr
global road traffic
deaths that occur each year, China's comprise more than a third, with 220,000, according to Bloomberg's
Global Road Safety Pr
Global Road Safety Program.
BIRTH Siri: Ten days before the
death of John McCarthy, the computer scientist who had coined the term «artificial intelligence» back in 1956, new machine life appeared on
global retail shelves.
In the case
of Waymo, Felten told Fortune senior writer Michal Lev - Ram that her team decided one way to reduce the massive number
of global driving
deaths would be to remove drivers from the equation by developing autonomous driving technology.
Ansi's reported
death suggests the covert U.S. drone program against the Yemen branch
of the
global militant group is continuing, despite the evacuation
of American military advisers from the country amid a worsening civil war.
Mary Barra, the first - ever female CEO
of a major
global automaker, has boldly accepted responsibility for an ignition defect that resulted in 12
deaths.
1) Always treat reports
of clusters
of unexpected and unexplained
deaths with at least a «high index
of suspicion» that the cause may be something
of potential
global concern.
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.
[To get a sense
of where Navarro is coming from, you can watch this full - length feature documentary here based on his book... the unambiguously titled «
Death by China: Confronting the Dragon — A
Global Call to Action»]
Goldman Sachs head
of global investment research Steve Strongin has pronounced the eventual
death of all but «a handful»
of cryptocurrencies as prices rebound.
«Consider that cars on average are in operation for only about an hour each day, but they account for 45 %
of global oil demand and, on average, 3,500 daily
deaths worldwide.»
The meltdown
of global credit markets starting with American sub-prime mortgage loans, leading to the
death of Wall Street as we have known it, and now to a serious
global recession, seemingly came out
of nowhere.
«America First» is a bad deal for everyone The
death of liberal world order leaves the world less prosperous, less peaceful, less freeRichard N. Haass argues that the post-war liberal world order has collapsed, threatening
global peace, prosperity and freedom.
Thanks to national immunization efforts like these,
global measles
deaths have fallen more than 80 percent since 2000, saving a total
of over 20 million lives.
Virgin Unite, Richard and the
Global Commission on Drug Policy call for the abolition
of the
death penalty for drug offences, and ultimately for all offences.
Following the
death of Left Behind author Tim LaHaye, John Tancock assesses the influence
of the man's theology on the
global Church More
A campaign aimed at saving the life
of a Christian woman sentenced to
death in Sudan has drawn
global support from governments, human rights charities and thousands
of individuals.
Globalization and the new networks
of social media keep
death before the mind
of a
global public on a daily basis.
These two simple interventions are well demonstrated to dramatically reduce poverty which is, without question, the root
of most preventable
global suffering and
death.
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).
(CNN)- The
deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked
global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.
CNN: Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech The
deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked
global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.
With unblinking eye, John foresees the long
death throes
of Rome and its
global tentacles.
Faith - based organizations are a vital and growing part
of our
global effort to end childhood
deaths from preventable diseases.
Perhaps the first to grasp the full significance
of globalization, and to experience
global consciousness intensively, was the Jesuit priest - scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955), whose seminal book The Phenomenon
of Man was written before 1940 but not published until after his
death.
Since
death and resurrection have long been central Christian themes, Christianity is well prepared for the task
of letting its old conventional self die, in order to rise again as a facet
of a new
global religion.7
In the end the original purpose
of God in Christ will be realised, but not before the pattern
of his
death and resurrection has been repeated one last time at the climax
of history — and therefore on a
global scale.
Counting too many can «take away» from the
deaths of active witnesses to the faith, International Mission Board
global strategist Nik Ripken told CT..
We need government infrastructure and resources to solve
global disease and end needless
deaths of mothers and children.
(For an interesting
global perspective on contraception, be sure to check out Rachel Marie Stone's post on the topic, where she cites this powerful statistic from USAID: «Family planning could prevent up to 30 percent
of the more than 287,000 maternal
deaths that occur every year, by enabling women to delay their first pregnancy and space later pregnancies at the safest intervals.
Global figures are difficult to gauge because
of poor reporting in some countries and differences in methods
of reporting; for example, some countries will classify maternal mortality as the
death of a woman within 21 days
of birth, others 42 days; some include only direct causes - sepsis, haemorrhage, obstruction - whereas others will include indirect causes such as malaria and anaemia.
Deficiencies
of vitamin A and zinc were estimated to be responsible for 0 · 6 million and 0 · 4 million
deaths, respectively, and a combined 9 %
of global childhood disability - adjusted life - years (DALYs).
The mission
of the Stillbirthday
Global Network is to validate a pregnancy loss as the birth, and
death, that it is.
The objective
of the Maternal Newborn Child Initiative is to give momentum to the implementation
of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 aimed at reducing the outrageous
global rates
of maternal and child
deaths, malnutrition and illness.
To address this issue WHO is today launching two new tools to help countries improve their data on stillbirths and neonatal
deaths as well as a report on the
global status
of implementation
of maternal
death surveillance and response (MDSR), a key strategy for reducing preventable maternal mortality.
They account for over 80 %
of all
global neonatal
deaths.
I feel that now, as the Lancet today publishes its series on breastfeeding stating that a lack
of protection and support for breastfeeding is killing more than 800,000 babies each year, causing more than 20,000
deaths from breast cancer, and costing the
global economy around $ 302bn per year in lost cognitive development and thus economic potential.
As a result, Philip Morris International now derives more revenue from Asia than from the European Union, and nearly 80 percent
of tobacco - related
deaths occur in the
Global South.
Safe Kids Pennsylvania is part
of the Safe Kids Worldwide
global network dedicated to keeping kids safe from preventable childhood injury — the number one cause
of death among children ages 1 to 19.
With your support, we can speed up progress towards achieving an important
global goal: ending the preventable
deaths of newborns worldwide.
Number
of pages: 195 Publication date: 2010 Languages: English ISBN: 9789241599573 Download the report [pdf 2.91 MB] Overview Countdown to 2015 is a
global movement
of academics, governments, UN agencies, foundations, health care associations and nongovernmental organizations formed in 2005 to track progress in reducing maternal and child
deaths in the 68 countries where over 95 %
of these
deaths occur.
The World Health Organization describes family planning as «the first step for avoiding maternal
deaths» (2) while statistical analysis by the
Global Health Council suggests that about 35 percent
of all maternal
deaths could be eliminated if all women and men had access to contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
The feeling that somebody has just passed away whose horizons and
global appeal extended the international significance
of this country is omnipresent — as well as the prevailing idea that his
death marks an end
of one era... Even the other Vaclav in the presidential office, his successor Klaus, who has been Havel's rival and critic ever since 1989, is now giving him credit — to the degree
of admitting that we owe his predecessor «like nobody else for the international position, prestige and authority
of the Czech Republic in the world.»
In 1938 Leon Trotsky declared that capitalism was in its «
death agony» and the far left have never lost faith in the imminent collapse
of the
global economic order.
The case
of Meriam Ibrahim, sentenced to
death for apostasy in Sudan, brought this issue to
global headlines earlier this year.
Ellis wants Jeremy Corbyn to adopt a full cream ultraleft revolutionary socialist programme, on the ludicrous premise that «
global capitalism is now in its final
death throws — and no reform or amelioration
of the lot
of the working class is possible».
Thanks to aid spending from around the world, we have seen massive breakthroughs in reducing
global poverty, and especially the number
of child
deaths.