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Disease is not the number one killer of men worldwide

03/30/2011 18:39:00 admin
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by Aimee Keenan-Greene


What's killing more young men than disease?
 
Researchers in the journal Lancet say injuries like accidents, violence and suicide were the dominant causes of death in young men ages 10-24 years since the late 1970's.
 
Scientists analyzed global mortality data from the World Health Organization  for people ages 1-24  over a fifty year period starting in 1955.   
 
Data from fifty countries was scoured: ten countries categorized as high income, twenty-two as middle income, eight as low income, seven as very low income, and three unclassified.
 
Half a century ago mortality was highest in the 1-4 year age group. 
 
By the year 2000, mortality in men ages 15-24 was two-to-three times higher than that in boys ages 1-4.
 
Mortality in young women 15-24 years was equal to that of young girls 1-4 years.
 
Across the study period, all-cause mortality was reduced by:

85 to 93 percent in children aged 1-4 years
80 to 87 percent in children aged 5-9 years
68 to 78 percent in young people aged 10 -14 years
41 to 48 percent in your men 15-24 years

Communicable and non-communicable diseases remained the main causes of death in children ages 1-9 and young women ages 10-24.
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