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1 online resource (112 pages) |
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Title; Copyright; Table of contents; Introduction; Part 1: Ten highlights in health statistics; PROGRESS TOWARDS MDG 5: maternal mortality; COVERAGE GAP AND INEQUITY IN MATERNAL, NEONATAL AND CHILD HEALTH INTERVENTIONS; HIV/AIDS ESTIMATES ARE REVISED DOWNWARDS; PROGRESS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST MALARIA; REDUCING DEATHS FROM TOBACCO; BREAST CANCER: mortality and screening; DIVERGENT TRENDS IN MORTALITY SLOW DOWN IMPROVEMENTS IN LIFE EXPECTANCY IN EUROPE; MONITORING DISEASE OUTBREAKS: meningococcal meningitis in Africa; FUTURE TRENDS IN GLOBAL MORTALITY: major shifts in cause of death patterns |
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REDUCING IMPOVERISHMENT AND CATASTROPHIC HEALTH CARE SPENDINGREFERENCES; Part 2: Global health indicators; Mortality and burden of disease; Health service coverage; Risk factors; Health systems resources; Inequities in health care and health outcome; Demographic and socioeconomic statistics; Footnotes and explanatory notes; Mortality and burden of disease; Health service coverage; Risk factors; Health systems resources; Inequ |
| Summary |
This annual edition presents the most recent statistics since 1990 of over 80 health indicators for WHO's 193 Member States. This fourth edition includes an expanded set of over 76 key indicators and a section with 10 highlights in global health statistics in the past year. This book has been collated from publications and databases of WHO's technical programmes and regional offices. The core set of indicators was selected on the basis of relevance for global health, availability and quality of data, and accuracy and comparability of estimates. The statistics for the indicators are based on an |
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Print version record |
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Medical statistics.
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Vital statistics.
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Communicable diseases -- Statistics
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Medical personnel -- Statistics
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Hospitals -- Statistics
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Communicable diseases.
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Hospitals.
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Medical personnel.
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Medical statistics.
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Vital statistics.
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Statistics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789240682740 |
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9240682740 |
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