Best among the worst
just 10 avoidable risk factors, including malnutrition, unsafe sex, smoking and poor sanitation, account for 40 per cent of global deaths each year. This was stated in the latest World Health Report of the World Health Organisation (who).
According to the organisation, cheap remedies exist for many ailments and governments of all countries can do more to prevent unnecessary and premature deaths. It concludes that such countermeasures could extend average life expectancy by five to 10 years.
"The report provides a road map on how societies can tackle a range of preventable conditions that kill millions of people prematurely and rob tens of millions of healthy life,' says Gro Harlem Brundtland, who director-general.
The risks are starkly different between
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