British women as likely to die young as Slovenians
OnMedica staff
Friday, 30 April 2010
Although adult mortality has almost halved in the UK since 1970, women in this country have a similar likelihood of dying before the age of 60 as women in Albania and Slovenia - only women in Belgium and Denmark are worse off. British men, however, fare much better than those from all countries of eastern Europe and are also mid-ranking in western Europe.
Adult mortality gets much less attention than infant mortality but is a crucial priority for global health, argue the authors of research paper published today on The Lancet Online First. They developed estimates for the probability that a person reaching their 15th birthday will die before their 60th birthday and used four data sources to calculate mortality rates across 187 countries: vital registration data, sample registration systems and survey/census data, deaths in household, and sibling survival data.
They found that men in Iceland and women in Cyprus are the least likely people in the world to die early, between the ages of 15 and 59 years.
There has been a strikingly rapid decline in women's mortality in south Asia; in 1970 this region had the highest levels of female mortality but by 2010, it had declined by 56%. Male mortality declined more across Australasia than other regions.
However, adults in many African and former Soviet Union nations are now more likely to die young than were adults in those countries 40 years ago, because of HIV and the disruption that followed the dismantling of the Soviet Union. Although Africa has high rates for men and women, mortality across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa has declined since 2005, which the authors put down to reduced HIV prevalence and increased access to antiretroviral treatment.
The authors suggest five factors that might explain the changes they found in adult mortality: the diseases of affluence; socioeconomic development; improved health technologies; social dysfunction in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union; and the HIV epidemic. But they say: "The decline in adult morality is manifesting itself differently in each region and could be attributed to one or a combination of the following factors: increase in income, improvement in education, adoption of modern health technology, and access to health care."
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Bob, I read in the Daily Mail over a month ago that masses of Polish women flock over to Britain to receive free abortions by NHS, and masses of other Polish women flock over to Britain to give birth, also at the total expense of NHS, on the grounds that they are e.u. citizens. The paper went on to explain, with a 'photo to prove it, that the Polish government actively supports this with banners and slogans in Warsaw, urging Polish women to flock to Britain for these two reasons!
It might be a reason why in some British hospitals, patients have been neglected by the staff... to many e.u. women marching over and aborting...or giving birth...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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what is it about the poles that irks you alexander.
we have immigrants from all over the world, why are the poles any different?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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True friends stab you in the front.
Not before sending their captured Enigma machine! An event that changed the war in our favour.
