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The level of mortality and its corollary, life expectancy, are good indicators of health in developing countries, since morbidity and mortality are closely related in these countries. While mortality has declined globally, life expectancy varies widely in different countries and regions. In developing countries, the level of mortality is marked by high levels of child, female and maternal mortality.
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World Data Sheet (2011), published by the Population Reference Bureau.
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The WHO distinguishes between developing countries with high mortality rates, with high child and adult mortality rates (sub-Saharan African countries and poor countries in Asia, Latin America and the Eastern Mediterranean) and other developing countries (the most developed countries of South and Central America and Asia) with low mortality rates (WHO 2003).
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‘Poor’ refers to people in the lowest income quintile, while ‘non-poor’ refers to anyone not in the lowest income quintile.
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More accurate estimates of neonatal mortality have emerged since 1995, based on national demographic surveys and statistical models.
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See in Annex 2 the WHO Regional and income grouping.
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The models presented in this section are drawn from Masuy-Stroobant (2005b).
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The health effects of HIV/AIDS will be examined in greater detail in Chap. 6 (on morbidity).
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In developed regions, the tuberculosis mortality rate dropped from 8 per 100,000 in 1990 to 4 per 100,000 in 2009.
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Gaimard, M. (2014). Mortality in Developing Countries: Profound Changes. In: Population and Health in Developing Countries. Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6793-5_4
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