By SABRINA TAVERNISE
The New York Times
December 13, 2012
A sharp decline in deaths from malnutrition and infectious diseases like measles and tuberculosis has caused a shift in global mortality patterns over the past 20 years, according to a report
published on Thursday, with far more of the world’s population now
living into old age and dying from diseases mostly associated with rich
countries, like cancer and heart disease.
The shift reflects improvements in sanitation, medical services and
access to food throughout the developing world, as well as the success
of broad public health efforts like vaccine programs. The results are
striking: infant mortality
declined by more than half from 1990 to 2010, and malnutrition, the No.
1 risk factor for death and years of life lost in 1990, has fallen to
No. 8.
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