Global Mortality Trends
Abstract
Chronic conditions such as heart disease and stroke have overtaken infectious diseases as the leading causes of death globally and will cause more than three-quarters of all deaths by 2030, according to a new report released in May by the World Health Organization (http://www.who.int /entity/whosis/whostat/EN_WHS08_Full.pdf). Projections suggest a massive shift in the distribution of deaths over the next 25 years, according to the report, World Health Statistics 2008. Between 2004 and 2030,...