Child mortality is (estimated to be) falling

Child mortality is (estimated to be) falling

www.thelancet.com Published online November 10, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32169-9 1 Undoubtedly child mortality is falling, and the world should be proud of this progress. Within the past 100 years, expectations around child mortality (and subsequentl y family size) have changed substantially, starting in countries that industrialised earlier and more recently pervading most ...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The sky is falling

Medical tourism involves travelling to other countries to avail medical, dental, or surgical care. A combination of various factors, such as exorbitant costs of healthcare in industrialised nations, the increased ease and affordability of international travel, favourable currency exchange rates in the global economy, rapidly improving medical technology and standards of care in many countries a...

Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires

BACKGROUND Forest, grass, and peat fires release approximately 2 petagrams of carbon into the atmosphere each year, influencing weather, climate, and air quality. OBJECTIVE We estimated the annual global mortality attributable to landscape fire smoke (LFS). METHODS Daily and annual exposure to particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM(2.5)) from fire emissions was estimated gl...

Training nurses to reduce child mortality.

After a shaky start, South Africa is finally making progress towards achieving the fourth of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 (UNDP 2003). However, whilst there has been a sustained decline in the country's under-five mortality rate (U5MR), this has only occurred since 2007 and the MDG target of 20 is unlike...