The researchers noted a big change in the list of countries with the lowest adult mortality over the past forty years.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The study estimated mortality rates for people age fifteen to fifty-nine in one hundred eighty-seven countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

But he points to growing inequalities in adult mortality -- a "massive spread" between countries with the highest rates and those with the lowest.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

"The group that had the training initially had a fifty percent greater reduction in their mortality rate and that was greater reduction than the control group, the group that didn't have the training initially."

VOA: special.2010.10.20

"There is an additional perhaps 10 to 15 percent mortality risk associated with acquiring an infection in the ICU ,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

(SAYING:mortality rates in the United States) About 40 percent of the decrease for men resulted from the decline in lung cancer death.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

"The difference is the developing countries have focused on public health, prevention and primary and prenatal care in the area of maternal mortality."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

"It found that in Badakhshan the maternal mortality issue was 6,500 per 100,000 live births and that is the highest ever documented in human history."

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Health officials in New York say the maternal mortality rate in the United States itself rivals that of poorer developed countries like Singapore and Ireland.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

It says most infant deaths happen in regions where maternal mortality rates are the highest.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Novy-Hildesley explains, the doctor faced a high rate of infant mortality in the clinic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

This year's report focuses on how well countries are doing in reaching eight-stated Millennium Development Goals, including cutting poverty by half and reducing child and maternal mortality.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

"Over the last decade we have continued to see improvements in cardiovascular mortality."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Authorities there must buy new equipment." The U.N.agency reports mortality rates in Gaza are about 30 percent higher than among the Palestinian population in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Clinton said Haiti leads the Western Hemisphere in unemployment and infant mortality, yet the Caribbean state's future is by no means hopeless if it receives properly-targeted international support.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

But there are rays of hope, and thanks to the introduction of rapid diagnostic tests and combination treatments, Senegal has seen large drops in both reported cases and mortality rates.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

For example,one question they wanted to answer was whether the loss of quality life years was due to people dying sooner - mortality - or living in poor health - morbidity.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The figures in the two efforts reveal an anomaly: While Cambodia has succeeded in dramatically cutting the ratio of children who die each year, the maternal mortality figure has not dropped in a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Maternal mortality in America is particularly high in New York City, where extremes of wealth and poverty abound, says Deborah Kaplan, who oversees the Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health for New York City's health department.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Many of them are emerging from conflicts. And,sub-Saharan Africa in particular, especially in Eastern and Southern Africa are facing major problems of HIV, which has had a huge impact on especially child mortality, life expectancy in general.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

"It does not really matter because in the best case scenario we have today,we will still have a moderate virus that is projected to cause several million deaths extra deaths than the usual influenza annual mortality, which means that even in the best-case scenario, we do have an emergency on our hand,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"These targets are set for 2015 and are to achieve at least 90 percent measles vaccination coverage nationally and 80 percent coverage in every district, reduce measles cases to less than five per million population, reduce measles mortality by U.N.health agencies have made huge strides in reducing the number of children dying from measles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21