Adult mortality trends reveal massive rise in global inequalities
Saturday, May 1, 2010 - 05:50
in Health & Medicine
The most comprehensive assessment to date of global adult mortality appears today, April 30, in The Lancet. The study, 'Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis,' shows that across countries, inequality in adult mortality has grown to the point where adult men in Swaziland - the country with the worst mortality rate - now have a probability of premature death that is nine times the mortality rate of the best country, Cyprus. The rates of mortality in southern Africa are now higher than mortality rates were in Sweden in 1751...