Important progress has been made on MDG health targets, but non-infectious diseases have spread to developing countries
An Indian nurse camps in Hyderabad a free diabetes health check using a glucometer , a blood sample collected from a patient . India is the world 's highest number of diabetics . Photo: Tauseef Mustafa / AFP / Getty Images.
The world is experiencing a shift in geographic distribution of diseases . Traditionally, claiming the lives of many children in which infectious diseases , poor countries such diabetes, heart disease and cancer as non- communicable diseases have affected the rich countries are suffering .
But on Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the latest figures from the national income level is no longer important , and all countries now face the burden of both diseases that appear.
Until now , high-income countries, non- communicable diseases , who is director of the Health Statistics and Informatics , Ties Boerma limited ills of opulence , as were to be identified , told IPS .
However , due to changes caused by aging population , improving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), birthrates and other factors change, developing countries are still fighting infectious diseases of global efforts to meet brought about by , he said .
Boerma trend most highly educated population groups , started in urban areas of developing countries , but noted that it is spreading rapidly . Published on Friday that the World Health Statistics 2011 report by the experts who was one of the central results .
Breakthrough study , basic health indicators to improve the fight against poverty , gender equality and education, strengthening , and in 2005 the UN General Assembly agreed by the international community , which was eight MDGs Other goals outlined in , by moving that was built in 2020 Last date is confirmed , Boerma said .
Over the past 10 years , improvements in child and maternal mortality rate - a key MDG targets - twice as fast as in the 1990s, progress has been made .
Still a great effort in many countries to meet the MDGs needs during the next five years , which means , quite , some of them are falling behind , Boerma said . However , the overall rate of growth is faster, he said.
Maternal mortality in the world, only a third of the way while child mortality in the world , only half of the MDG target, which experts said .
WHO and UNICEF , the United Nations Children's Fund , the new data are released when the question of infant mortality , will be assessed again in September . For now , children under five who died in 2009, "We 're still standing at 8.1 million ", Boerma 1990 compared with $ 12.4 million in the year , he said .
With respect to the situation in the U.S. , the figure " very good progress " had been made in many countries indicate that they said.
In Brazil , Argentina and Chile , for example , " has been steady but relatively rapid decline in child mortality , and the prevalence is higher in the intervention . , And they also reduce inequality between rich and poor . Brazil a Got a good case study where the poor have benefited , "he said Mexico also has developed , he said .
At the other extreme , of course , Haiti 's health indicators are still some progress but "still a very long way to go " that countries like Bolivia and Peru , are worried added .
Boerma This is not a rich country , though , it " spends on health " and in a very fair manner , " pointing out that it does , Cuba cited .
"Everybody health services ( free) access , " he said . "So in terms of life expectancy and low infant mortality rate very high number and high coverage of interventions . Reach the entire population and is very successful in getting a good price " for its investment , he said .
U.S. health experts in the United States in terms of data " is not top " that . He comes to the amount of money spent on health , they are at the top , " but for their investment in the health service to achieve good results at the top of the case are : he said ..
" One reason , " he said , " maybe its coverage of the entire population is not so good . Costs that benefit a small proportion of the population that is relatively expensive curative intervention or interference . "
WHO study in 2009, the average global life expectancy has increased from 68 in 1990 to 64 years . It is up to 80 years in rich countries and poor countries , on average , 56 years.
Life expectancy for women than for men , on average, five years longer . The difference is that during the last two decades , between four and five years , is quite stable .
WHO data between low- and high-income countries, a huge difference in health costs per year in the former and the latter $ 32 per capita average of $ 400 , there is still displayed.
Study of the high-income countries than in low-income countries , on average, per capita , 10 times more doctors , 12 times more nurses and midwives and 30 times more dentists that report.
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