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10 statistical highlights in global public

This brief highlights 10 of the most important global public health issues based on global health statistics for 2007.

Issues covered in the brief include:
- Monitoring and appropriate use of health statistics
- People living with HIV
- Projected deaths for selected health causes to 2030
- Child under-nutrition
- Levels and causes of deaths
- Tobacco use and poverty
- Mental illness
- Determinants of inequities in health
- Tuberculosis
- Health expenditure

Resource link:
http://www.who.int/whosis/ whostat2007_10highlights.pdf
Published: 2007
Source: World Health Organisation (http://www.who.int)
Added to ADG on: 18 December 2007 , contributed by: ADG team
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