Articles: mortality.
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J Epidemiol Community Health · Aug 1992
Adding years to life: effect of avoidable mortality on life expectancy at birth.
The aim was to determine the number of years that could be gained by preventing avoidable deaths. ⋯ According to these results the greatest improvement in LEB would be gained by primary prevention.
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Hunger and malnutrition in Africa have been on the increase since 1960's reaching a climax in the 1980's when over 150 million people were affected by one form or another. Methods so far used to solve the problem do not seem to succeed, but the scientists and leaders in Africa could now take the opportunity to consider and act on the problem in their own way. The formation of an African food and nutrition group to work with others on the problems, could give an impetus to this kind of initiative. A call is made to all African food and nutrition workers to combine efforts to harness Africa resources, which have not been fully utilized in solving the problem.
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In a study of 7,631 cases referred to the infectious diseases hospital, Nairobi with a diagnosis of measles, 7,447 cases had the diagnosis confirmed. The overall mortality was 17.5 per 1000 cases with 43.51 of all the deaths occurring in all children less than 12 months of age. A nutritional analysis revealed that children whose weight were below 80 of the Harvard median of weight for age stayed in hospital longest and had the highest mortality rate. Measles continues to offer increasing challenge in spite of the intensive vaccination programme presently being carried out.
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Comparative Study
Mortality of former prisoners of war and other Australian veterans.
This second summary article from an epidemiological review of the health of former prisoners of war (POWs) and other Australian veterans, commissioned by the Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation, reports on studies of mortality. ⋯ Elevated early postwar mortality of young former POWs implicates diseases with short latent periods (including psychiatric disorders). This is consistent with the greater health risks of this group of survivors that were identified in the earlier review of morbidity. Mortality among former POWs and other veterans requires continued surveillance because a "healthy worker effect" (or exclusion of unfit persons from the armed forces) may partly conceal increased morbidity or mortality that should be attributed to war service.
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To determine the causes of and risk factors for mortality following noncardiac surgery. ⋯ Even in patients at high risk of cardiac complications following surgery, noncardiac causes of death are more common. Patients with a history of hypertension, severely limited activity, and reduced renal function appear to be at especially high risk of in-hospital mortality after noncardiac surgery.