Trends, measurements and indicators
Approximately 90 per cent of the communicable disease burden is borne by the developing world, with a disproportionate share involving young pre-school age children. Although there are regional differences, many diseases are common. While mortality from diarrhoea has declined, attack rates and burden remain high.
Pneumonia has assumed even greater importance in both attack rate and mortality. The toll from pneumonia and diarrhoea is exacerbated by malnutrition, recurrent infection, and poverty. Polio has been eliminated from much of the world, but remains a concern in sub-Saharan Africa. While there has been some progress in combating communicable disease, more effort is required, particularly for pneumonia.
- Social and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases
- This article from Nature Medicine Supplement looks at the emergence over the past 30 years of new diseases including hepatitis C, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza, alongside the resurgence of "old" diseases such as cholera. The authors argue that these trends are influenced by multiple social and environmental factors.
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- Controlling infectious diseases
- ( M. M. Kent; S. Yin / Population Reference Bureau , 2006)
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- This bulletin from the Population Reference Bureau investigates the major health threats from infectious and parasitic diseases, with a special focus on diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, and tuberculosis....
- Child survival 2: How many child deaths can we prevent this year?
- ( G. Jones; R.W. Steketee; R.E. Black; Z.A. Bhutta;S.S. Morris / The Lancet , 2003)
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Two thirds of child deaths in poor countries could be prevented using interventions that are readily available today, according to this article, the second in The Lancet child survival series.
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- Estimates of world-wide distribution of child deaths from acute respiratory infections
- ( B.G. Williams; E. Gouws; C. Boschi-Pinto; J. Bryce / The Lancet Infectious Diseases , 2002)
- Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are among the leading causes of childhood mortality in poor countries. It is important to estimate reliably the number of children worldwide who die from ARI and to...
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- Burden of disease statistics
- ( World Health Organization , 2008)
- This online resource produced by the World Health Organization provides the latest documentation, methods, results and projections for the global burden of disease. It provides statistical information...
- Meteorological effects of malaria transmission in Burkina Faso
- ( Y. Ye;V. R. Louis;S. Simboro;R. Sauerborn / BMC Public Health , 2007)
- This paper, published in BMC public health, examines the effects of meteorological factors (temperature, relative humidity and rainfall) on the incidence of clinical malaria. It uses data collected fr...
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