We Live Longer But In Poorer Health

We Live Longer But In Poorer Health

Recent studies show that people all around the world are living longer but have poorer health over the course of their lives. The same study shows the progress made with the death rate of children under the age of five.

Back in 1990 when the last test of this caliber was conducted the main issue was the high number of deaths in children under the age of five, which was 10 million every year.

Since then measures as vaccination against varying diseases like polio or measles seem to have reduced the number to about 7 million deaths per year.

As people are living longer other health issues seem to rise to the surface, says one of the study leader Christopher Murrey, director of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington “ The biggest contributor to the global health burden isn't premature (deaths), but chronic diseases, injuries, mental health conditions and all the bone and joint diseases”

Even though people seem to be living longer all across the world some discrepancies are noticeable in death causes depending on the geographical region and cultural influences.

With chronic diseases being the number one killer just about anywhere across the globe, Africa seems to be an exception, because of the high rates of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis affect the health and life expectancy of the region.

Posted by George Daniels on Sunday December 16 2012, 4:06 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, Health. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0