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In Memoriam
Are young adults more likely to die than children? A study from the medical journal Lancet looked at the data from 50 countries and found that while overall mortality had fallen, rates were now relatively higher in teenagers and young adults, than in young children.
Mortality from disease is down, BBC News reports, but violence, suicide and road accidents are on the rise. Mortality in children ages 1-9 years-old has dropped by between 80 and 93 percent, due to fewer deaths from infectious disease.
However, in young men aged 15-24, mortality has fallen between 41 and 48 percent, again due to advances in combating disease. But violence, suicide or road accidents, emerges as the biggest reason of mortality in young men in all regions, and the prevalent cause of death for young women in rich and eastern European countries.
Results, published in the Lancet, reflect part of the success in reducing mortality among very young children, the researchers said. However, strong international focus on reducing infant and child mortality has not been matched by a similar efforts in older groups, even though more than two-fifths of the world?s population is in the five to 24 years age group......
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/health..._suffer_higher_mortality_rates_than_children/
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Mortality from disease is down, BBC News reports, but violence, suicide and road accidents are on the rise. Mortality in children ages 1-9 years-old has dropped by between 80 and 93 percent, due to fewer deaths from infectious disease.
However, in young men aged 15-24, mortality has fallen between 41 and 48 percent, again due to advances in combating disease. But violence, suicide or road accidents, emerges as the biggest reason of mortality in young men in all regions, and the prevalent cause of death for young women in rich and eastern European countries.
Results, published in the Lancet, reflect part of the success in reducing mortality among very young children, the researchers said. However, strong international focus on reducing infant and child mortality has not been matched by a similar efforts in older groups, even though more than two-fifths of the world?s population is in the five to 24 years age group......
read more at:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health..._suffer_higher_mortality_rates_than_children/
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