Sentences with phrase «reduce global mortality»
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.
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The partnership with Nestlé and the links to providing free formula feeding products contravenes the very fundamentals that have been adopted by the global community through the World Health Assembly to reestablish breastfeeding practices and reduce the illness and mortality associated with insufficient breastfeeding.
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.
Global diarrhoea mortality has been dramatically reduced among under - five - year - old children, due to wide spread use of oral rehydration and zinc treatment.
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.
A primary goal of EWEC is to supplement the work of WHO and UNICEF to reduce global neonatal mortality and morbidity.
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.
Others were to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health, to combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases, to ensure environmental sustainability, and to develop a global partnership for development.
This new evidence reinforces the Obama administration's Global Health Initiative, which prioritizes prevention of unintended pregnancies and reducing maternal and newborn mortality.
««By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.&global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.&Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.»
«The fact that mortality is declining faster than non-fatal disease and injury prevalence is further evidence of the importance of paying attention to the rising health loss from these leading causes of disability, and not simply focusing on reducing mortality,» [3] says Theo Vos, lead author and Professor of Global Health at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, USA.
Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.
Their figures provide a comprehensive new analysis of global progress towards reducing child mortality.
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.
By 2015, the leaders pledged, the world would achieve measurable improvements in the most critical areas of human development: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, global partnership for development.
«By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 Novglobal health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 NovGlobal Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.
Thus an increase of average temperature, due to global warming (which has most effect in winter), will reduce average mortality, not increase it...
Although global forests currently capture and store more carbon each year than they emit, 46 the ability of forests to act as large, global carbon absorbers («sinks») may be reduced by projected increased disturbances from insect outbreaks, 47 forest fire, 48 and drought, 49 leading to increases in tree mortality and carbon emissions.
Consequently, global mortality rates from malaria and extreme weather events, for instance, have been reduced at least five-fold in the past 60 years.
Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower average per 100,000 global mortality between 2020 - 2030 compared to 2005 - 2015
«And since it has long been known that the DTR has declined significantly over many parts of the world as mean global air temperature has risen over the past several decades (Easterling et al., 1997), it can be appreciated that the global warming with which this DTR decrease is associated (which is driven by the fact that global warming is predominantly caused by an increase in daily minimum temperature) has likely helped to significantly reduce the CHD mortality of the world's elderly people.»