Harvard Public Health Magazine, Spring 2013

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...BUT THERE IS MORE TO BE DONE. MAJOR CAUSES OF DEATH AND DISEASE—THEN AND NOW

The leading causes of health problems and health risks have shifted.

1990

2010

Increase

Position movement from 1990 to 2010:

1

LOWER RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS

2

DIARRHEAL DISEASE

3

PRE-TERM BIRTH CONDITIONS

4

ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

5

STROKE

6

COPD

7

MALARIA

8

TUBERCULOSIS

9

PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION

10

NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY

Decrease

Same

ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

1

LOWER RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS

2

STROKE

3

DIARRHEAL DISEASE

4

HIV/AIDS

5

MALARIA

7

PRE-TERM BIRTH CONDITIONS

8

COPD

9

ROAD INJURIES

10

11

11

12

ROAD INJURIES

33

NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY

12

TUBERCULOSIS

13

PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION

20

HIV/AIDS

AFRICA STILL BEARS THE GREATEST BURDEN. AIDS and other preventable conditions are still huge problems here, alongside maternal, child and newborn mortality.

IN 1990, AIDS WAS THE 33RD leading cause of disease burden and death around the world.

1.5 MILLION PEOPLE

DIED FROM AIDS IN 2010 ALONE.

AIDS REMAINS THE 3RD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN

EASTERN EUROPE. With insights into the changing causes of disease and death globally, the public health community can better address critical threats to health over the coming two decades and beyond.

11 Spring 2013

BY 2010, AIDS MOVED TO 5TH.


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