Global Mortality

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Deadly environments...

Nearly One Quarter of Global Deaths Environmentally Linked
March 15, 2016 — A new World Health Organization study estimates nearly one quarter of all annual global deaths - 12.6 million yearly - are from unhealthy environmental causes. The U.N. agency says most of these deaths could be prevented if steps were taken to improve environmental conditions.

The report says environmental risk factors, such as air, water and soil pollution; chemical exposure; climate change and ultraviolet radiation cause more than 100 diseases and injuries. It says the South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions have the highest number of environmentally linked deaths. A decade ago, the biggest killers were infectious diseases, such as diarrhea and malaria, linked to poor water, sanitation and waste management. During the past 10 years, death from infectious diseases has declined because an increasing number of people have gained access to safe water and sanitation. The report finds non-communicable diseases linked to unhealthy environments now account for the largest share of global deaths.

A woman holds her son, suffering from dengue fever, as she sits under a mosquito net inside a dengue ward of a local hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.​

WHO Public Health and Environmental Chief Maria Neira says among them, 8.2 million deaths are attributable to air pollution, including exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. “Non-communicable diseases are one of the most important epidemics and public health problems that we are facing today. So, if we could remove those environmental risk factors, we can ensure a major decrease on the incidence and prevalence of those chronic diseases,” said Neira.

The WHO report says stroke, heart diseases, cancers, and chronic respiratory disease amount to nearly two-thirds of the total deaths caused by unhealthy environments. Neira told VOA it would be far more cost effective for nations to spend less money on treatment and more on prevention. “Ninety-seven percent of the medical expenditure, which are trillions of dollars, are going to treatment of a disease - medical care. And, only three percent of those resources are going to prevention,” she said. WHO recommends improving the environment and preventing diseases by the use of clean technologies and fuels for domestic cooking, heating and lighting; increasing access to safe water and sanitation, improving urban transit and building energy-efficient housing.

Nearly One Quarter of Global Deaths Environmentally Linked

 

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The three greatest emergencies are Syria, Yemen and Iraq...

WHO: Global Health Emergencies on Rise
April 05, 2016 — More than 125 million people are living in crisis-affected countries, the World Health Organization reports, saying the three greatest emergencies are Syria, Yemen and Iraq.

The agency is appealing for $2.2 billion to come to terms with the escalating health crisis, in an effort to provide life-saving health care to 87 million people in more than 30 countries. In Syria, the agency says 11.5 million people need essential medicines and primary health care, as well as trauma care and mental health care.

People look for survivors in the ruins of a hospital hit by missiles in Marat Numan, Idlib province, Syria​

WHO says special care for mothers and children, as well as essential medicine and other health care, are needed by more than seven million people in Iraq and 10.6 million in Yemen. In South Sudan, the focus of aid for 2.3 million people will be on combating child mortality by preventing and treating malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia, according to WHO.

Health care threatened

War and violence have wreaked havoc on these countries, says Rick Brennan, WHO's director of emergency risk management and humanitarian response. The destruction has been felt in the loss of health infrastructure, the loss of staff, and the disruption of health programs like vaccination programs, according to Brennan. “I think the other issue is that none of these emergencies is going away any time soon,” he said. “So, we have to shift the way that we think about providing assistance there — not only to meeting acute needs, but working with partners on the ground to increase their resilience and their capacity to provide assistance."

Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, inspects damage at a hospital in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz​

Brennan says natural disasters also are of concern. He cites the health consequences of the El Nino weather phenomenon on countries such as Ethiopia, where some 400,000 children are suffering acute malnutrition. In addition, the U.N. agency and its partners are responding to sudden onset emergencies such as Cyclone Winston that hit Fiji in February, epidemics such as the Zika virus in Brazil, a severe outbreak of yellow fever in Angola — the worst in 30 years — and the remaining risks of Ebola in West Africa.

WHO: Global Health Emergencies on Rise

 

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I thought greens said we need less people to save the planet

 

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Greenery helps womens live longer...

Greenery Linked to Longer Lifespan in Women: Study
April 20, 2016 - Researchers found that the mortality rate among women who lived in the greenest surroundings was 12 percent lower than for those living in homes in the least green areas

Living among plants could help women live longer, according to a new study. Writing in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that women “who live in homes surrounded by more vegetation appear to have significantly lower mortality rates than those who live in areas with less vegetation.”

Over the course of an eight-year study, the researchers found that the mortality rate among women who lived in the greenest surroundings was 12 percent lower than for those living in homes in the least green areas. “We were surprised to observe such strong associations between increased exposure to greenness and lower mortality rates,” said Peter James, research associate in the Harvard Chan School's Department of Epidemiology. “We were even more surprised to find evidence that a large proportion of the apparent benefit from high levels of vegetation seems to be connected with improved mental health.”

Glorious autumn foliage blazes on trees in a forest in Fair Oaks, Virginia​

The study suggests that greenery improved mental health by lowering levels of depression. Greenery, researchers say, also afforded more opportunity for social engagement, higher physical activity levels and perhaps less exposure to air pollution. For the study, the researchers looked at data from 108,630 women enrolled in the Nurse’s Health Study from 2000-2008 and compared their mortality rates as well as the amount of greenery surrounding their homes. They viewed satellite images to determine how much vegetation surrounded the properties. Risk factors such as age, economic status, race, ethnicity and smoking were accounted for as well.

One of the biggest effects of greenery appeared to be a lowered risk of respiratory disease and cancer. The study found that women living in areas with the most greenery had a 34 percent lower rate of respiratory disease-related mortality and a 13 percent lower rate of cancer-related deaths. “We know that planting vegetation can help the environment by reducing wastewater loads, sequestering carbon, and mitigating the effects of climate change. Our new findings suggest a possible co-benefit - improving health - that presents planners, landscape architects, and policy makers with a potential tool to grow healthier places,” said James.

Greenery Linked to Longer Lifespan in Women: Study

 

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Life expectancy rates for women in U.S. a concern for health experts...

Rise in Death Rate of US White Women Worries Health Experts
May 18, 2016 - White women in the United States are dying too soon.

That is the simplest way of stating a problem that has become apparent over the past year through statistical analysis. Studies of death rates around the country carried out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics show that life expectancy for every demographic group has either gone up or remained stable — except for that of white women, for whom life expectancy has gone down. The decrease is not very large: The mortality rate for white women in 2013 was 81.2 years and the rate for that same group in 2014 was 81.1 years, a decrease of one-tenth of a percentage point. Health care researchers, like Jarron Saint Onge at the University of Kansas, however, are concerned. “As things get better, in a sense, as our life gets easier, our jobs become less dangerous, we would expect that life expectancy continues to go up,” said Saint Onge. “When you see life expectancy all of a sudden flatline or not increasing, especially as we see a decline in our smoking rate, it is cause for alarm.”

A woman walks along a boardwalk in New York. Lifestyle and lack of access to health care have been among the factors attributed to a rise in the mortality rate of white women in the United States.​

The other problem is that if the trend continues, it could produce an even wider gap between white women and other demographic groups. For example, life expectancy among black people, while still lower than that of whites overall by a few percentage points, is higher than it was several years ago, and it continues to rise. Hispanics have higher life expectancies than blacks or whites, even though a large percentage of that group earn low incomes and lack health insurance. Researchers think that may be due to strong community support, close families and a much lower rate of smoking among Hispanics. Saint Onge found that the rise in premature deaths is more pronounced among white women in rural areas, and smaller cities and towns in southern states. Mental illness, alcohol abuse and drug addiction all have increased in those areas, as well, and many specific deaths can be linked to these problems. “We need to back up a little more and look at why we are seeing these upticks in substance abuse,” said Saint Onge. “Is it a lack of mental health services? Or is it a lack of economic opportunities or educational opportunities?”

Substance abuse problem

There also has been a slight increase in suicides in some of these areas, along with deaths from such things as heart disease and liver failure. John O’Neill, director of Addiction Services at the world-renowned Menninger Clinic in Houston, said drug and alcohol abuse could be the underlying problem. “We know that people who struggle with substance use are going to have more medical problems, we know that there are more motor vehicle accidents, we know that there is more crime, there is more domestic violence, more sexual assaults,” he said. While many small cities and towns may have clinics or hospitals to treat physical ailments, though, they may lack mental health or substance abuse programs. “In a smaller community, that may be a service that is not available, so it goes untreated and thus it can certainly contribute to long-term heart disease, strokes, various physical problems,” O’Neill said.

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Electra: The MORE link is at the bottom of the post.

 

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Uncle Ferd says, "Yeah - workin' is hazardous to yer health...

Older People Dying on Job at Higher Rate Than All Workers
August 02, 2017 - Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics.

It's a trend that's particularly alarming as baby boomers reject the traditional retirement age of 65 and keep working. The U.S. government estimates that by 2024, older workers will account for 25 percent of the labor market. Getting old - and the physical changes associated with it - "could potentially make a workplace injury into a much more serious injury or a potentially fatal injury," said Ken Scott, an epidemiologist with the Denver Public Health Department. Gerontologists say those changes include gradually worsening vision and hearing impairment, reduced response time, balance issues and chronic medical or muscle or bone problems such as arthritis.

In 2015, about 35 percent of the fatal workplace accidents involved a worker 55 and older - or 1,681 of the 4,836 fatalities reported nationally. William White, 56, was one of them. White fell 25 feet while working at Testa Produce Inc. on Chicago's South Side. He later died of his injuries. "I thought it wouldn't happen to him," his son, William White Jr., said in an interview. "Accidents happen. He just made the wrong move." The AP analysis showed that the workplace fatality rate for all workers - and for those 55 and older - decreased by 22 percent between 2006 and 2015. But the rate of fatal accidents among older workers during that time period was 50 percent to 65 percent higher than for all workers, depending on the year.

Testa Produce Inc. plant on the South Side of Chicago, July 20, 2017. Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statist​

The number of deaths among all workers dropped from 5,480 in 2005 to 4,836 in 2015. By contrast, on-the-job fatalities among older workers increased slightly, from 1,562 to 1,681, the analysis shows. During that time period, the number of older people in the workplace increased by 37 percent. That compares with a 6 percent rise in the population of workers overall. Ruth Finkelstein, co-director of Columbia University's Aging Center, cautions against stereotyping. She said older people have a range of physical and mental abilities and that it's dangerous to lump all people in an age group together because it could lead to discrimination.

She said she's not sure that older workers need much more protection than younger workers, but agreed there is a need for all workers to have more protection. "We are not paying enough attention to occupational safety in this country," she said. The AP analysis is based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census for Fatal Occupational Injuries and from one-year estimates from the American Community Survey, which looks at the working population. It excludes cases where the cause of death was from a "natural cause," including a heart attack or stroke.

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Deadly environments...

Nearly One Quarter of Global Deaths Environmentally Linked
March 15, 2016 — A new World Health Organization study estimates nearly one quarter of all annual global deaths - 12.6 million yearly - are from unhealthy environmental causes. The U.N. agency says most of these deaths could be prevented if steps were taken to improve environmental conditions.

The report says environmental risk factors, such as air, water and soil pollution; chemical exposure; climate change and ultraviolet radiation cause more than 100 diseases and injuries. It says the South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions have the highest number of environmentally linked deaths. A decade ago, the biggest killers were infectious diseases, such as diarrhea and malaria, linked to poor water, sanitation and waste management. During the past 10 years, death from infectious diseases has declined because an increasing number of people have gained access to safe water and sanitation. The report finds non-communicable diseases linked to unhealthy environments now account for the largest share of global deaths.

A woman holds her son, suffering from dengue fever, as she sits under a mosquito net inside a dengue ward of a local hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.​

WHO Public Health and Environmental Chief Maria Neira says among them, 8.2 million deaths are attributable to air pollution, including exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. “Non-communicable diseases are one of the most important epidemics and public health problems that we are facing today. So, if we could remove those environmental risk factors, we can ensure a major decrease on the incidence and prevalence of those chronic diseases,” said Neira.

The WHO report says stroke, heart diseases, cancers, and chronic respiratory disease amount to nearly two-thirds of the total deaths caused by unhealthy environments. Neira told VOA it would be far more cost effective for nations to spend less money on treatment and more on prevention. “Ninety-seven percent of the medical expenditure, which are trillions of dollars, are going to treatment of a disease - medical care. And, only three percent of those resources are going to prevention,” she said. WHO recommends improving the environment and preventing diseases by the use of clean technologies and fuels for domestic cooking, heating and lighting; increasing access to safe water and sanitation, improving urban transit and building energy-efficient housing.

Nearly One Quarter of Global Deaths Environmentally Linked

Total fucking bullshit. Poverty is what causes most deaths, and all this warmist hysteria will only increase poverty if the schemes of the warmist cult are carried out.

 

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Uncle Ferd says, "Yeah - workin' is hazardous to yer health...

Older People Dying on Job at Higher Rate Than All Workers
August 02, 2017 - Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statistics.

It's a trend that's particularly alarming as baby boomers reject the traditional retirement age of 65 and keep working. The U.S. government estimates that by 2024, older workers will account for 25 percent of the labor market. Getting old - and the physical changes associated with it - "could potentially make a workplace injury into a much more serious injury or a potentially fatal injury," said Ken Scott, an epidemiologist with the Denver Public Health Department. Gerontologists say those changes include gradually worsening vision and hearing impairment, reduced response time, balance issues and chronic medical or muscle or bone problems such as arthritis.

In 2015, about 35 percent of the fatal workplace accidents involved a worker 55 and older - or 1,681 of the 4,836 fatalities reported nationally. William White, 56, was one of them. White fell 25 feet while working at Testa Produce Inc. on Chicago's South Side. He later died of his injuries. "I thought it wouldn't happen to him," his son, William White Jr., said in an interview. "Accidents happen. He just made the wrong move." The AP analysis showed that the workplace fatality rate for all workers - and for those 55 and older - decreased by 22 percent between 2006 and 2015. But the rate of fatal accidents among older workers during that time period was 50 percent to 65 percent higher than for all workers, depending on the year.

Testa Produce Inc. plant on the South Side of Chicago, July 20, 2017. Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal statist​

The number of deaths among all workers dropped from 5,480 in 2005 to 4,836 in 2015. By contrast, on-the-job fatalities among older workers increased slightly, from 1,562 to 1,681, the analysis shows. During that time period, the number of older people in the workplace increased by 37 percent. That compares with a 6 percent rise in the population of workers overall. Ruth Finkelstein, co-director of Columbia University's Aging Center, cautions against stereotyping. She said older people have a range of physical and mental abilities and that it's dangerous to lump all people in an age group together because it could lead to discrimination.

She said she's not sure that older workers need much more protection than younger workers, but agreed there is a need for all workers to have more protection. "We are not paying enough attention to occupational safety in this country," she said. The AP analysis is based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census for Fatal Occupational Injuries and from one-year estimates from the American Community Survey, which looks at the working population. It excludes cases where the cause of death was from a "natural cause," including a heart attack or stroke.

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Wow, older people die more often than younger people? Who would have ever imagined that? You know what the real shocker is? The ultimate mortality rate for old people is 100%! it's a catastrophe, I tell you!