Moscow’s mortality rate has reportedly doubled since smoke from wildfires blanketed the Russian capital with a toxic cloud. Health officials have not revealed the exact total, but they say that twice as many bodies in the city’s morgue since the start of the baking temperatures.
Posts Tagged ‘mortality’
Saving the children
May 25th, 2010 |
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How child mortality has changed since 1990
SOME 7.7m children under the age of five will die in 2010, down from 11.9m in 1990, according to a new study published online by the Lancet from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. This is 800,000 fewer deaths than was estimated by UNICEF in 2009, a difference the authors attribute to a larger data collection and better statistical analysis. Most sub-Saharan African countries have made slow progress, but there is evidence of accelerating declines from 2000 to 2010 compared with 1990 to 2000. The Maldives, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates and Portugal have made the biggest steps in reducing child mortality, with the rate of decline in each averaging over 7% a year. At 2.98 deaths for every 1,000 infants, the UAE now has the sixth-lowest mortality rate in the world. Britain and America are among the worst performing rich nations, ranking 22nd and 44th out of 187 countries.
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Major report details India’s infant mortality crisis
October 5th, 2009 |
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Despite India’s recent rapid economic development, more than 400,000 babies die in the country every year from preventable causes within 24 hours of their birth, a report said on Monday. India accounts for a fifth of all newborn deaths worldwide, according to the major report published by
Liya Kebede: We Need a Global Fund for Moms
July 21st, 2009 |
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Each mother who dies leaves behind a devastated family and weakened community that will eventually, somehow, affect each of us.
Fearful furniture at the V & A
July 18th, 2009 |
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Prepare for themes of mortality and fear as the Victoria and Albert Museum opens its summer exhibition of fanciful contemporary furniture design