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World Pneumonia Day
This upcoming Saturday, November 12th, is World Pneumonia Day. While pneumonia is looked at as common and easily preventable/treatable in the United States, it causes more deaths than any other infectious disease in the rest of the world. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from pneumonia somewhere in the world. In respect to World Pneumonia more »
US Health Care Reform
In 2010, USA Today reported that the number of uninsured Americans had risen to 50.7 million. The significance is that one in six U.S. residents lacks access to quality health care.6 Furthermore, this number does not include those that are underinsured (about 25 million people) or illegal immigrants.3 Our health care system is also one of more »
The Increasing Threat of Non-Communicable Disease in the Developing World
Global health has been typecast with images of AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases. While these diseases are certainly a huge problem, the truth of the matter is that “diseases of the rich” traditionally associated with first world countries such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer are now showing up more and more in developing more »
Infant and Child Deaths Across the World: An Examination of Neonatal and Child Mortality
Since 1990, the number of neonatal and child deaths before the age of five has greatly been reduced. It has reduced around 28% from 1990 to 2008 and the number of deaths for children under five has reduced from 12.5 million to 8.8 million. The main causes of deaths in children ranges from various neonatal more »