#3 This is actually very serious:
Diseases with the largest total annual health burden from environmental factors, in terms of death, illness and disability or Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)1 are:
* Diarrhoea (58 million DALYS per year; 94% of the diarrhoeal burden of disease) largely from unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene
* Lower respiratory infections (37 million DALYs per year; 41% of all cases globally) largely from air pollution, indoor and outdoor.
* Unintentional injuries other than road traffic injuries (21 million DALYs per year; 44 % of all cases globally), classification which includes a wide range of industrial and workplace accidents.
* Malaria (19 million DALYs per year; 42% of all cases globally), largely as a result of poor water resource, housing and land use management which fails to curb vector populations effectively.
* Road traffic injuries (15 million DALYS per year; 40% of all cases globally), largely as a result of poor urban design or poor environmental design of transport systems.
* Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) -- a slowly progressing disease characterized by a gradual loss of lung function. (COPD, 12 million DALYs per year; 42% of all cases globally) largely as a result of exposures to workplace dusts and fumes and other forms of indoor and outdoor air pollution.
* Perinatal conditions (11 million DALYS per year; 11% of all cases globally).
1DALYs = Disability Adjusted Life Years: The sum of years of potential life lost due to premature mortality and the years of productive life lost due to disability.
That diarrhoea kills millions, expecially children, needlessly is an indication of how primitively the bottom of humanity lives and how inefficiently the public health expenditures are. The same can be sid for malaria. |
(SomaliNet) A total of 77 lives have been claimed by the out break of acutely watery diarrhoea with over 2000 cases reported in northern Sudan, Angolapress reported Tuesday. According to the ministry's update on the epidemic covering 21 April to 18 June 2006, about 35 percent of the total number of cases occurred in the Khartoum state, while 26 percent were reported in Northern Kordofan. The rest of the cases occurred in White Nile, South Darfur, South Kordofan, Kassala, Red Sea, Al Gezira and River Nile.