These graphs and data are extracted from WHO The World Health Report 1998. They indicate current health conditions and global trends in health.
Note how over the last 12 years perinatal and maternal causes of death have significantly decreased in developed countries, while in developing countries this form of death is not only high, but has remained unchanged. In the developing world death is mostly due to infectious diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea, combined with malnutrition.
Page Links: Introduction | Perinatal and Maternal Death | Death According to Development | WWW Links
Other Pages: World Statistics | Global Population Distribution | WHO WWW Links
The table below shows the difference between developed and developing countries over time in terms of percentages of death in mothers and infants in the world. Note that developed countries have improved substantially even since 1985, while developing countries have remained unchanged.
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Year : |
1985 |
1990 |
1997 |
Developed World |
5% |
4% |
1% |
Developing World |
10% |
9% |
10% |
See also other pages: Age Structure of Deaths | Leading causes of Global Deaths | Infant Health.
Published by WHO, 11 May 1998 ISBN 92 4 156189 0.
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You should look at normal development. Development Notes
Alternatively, go on to look at Systematic Development of organs and tissues.
For those wanting to see dynamic processes of development (and have a reasonably quick connection) then the Movies pages are good for watching changes occur.
The study of human development has relied extensively on studying the process in other model animals. For those wanting to see the process of development in other species then the other embryos pages are a good start.
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Dev Notes 1
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Introduction
Australian Statistics
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World Death Statistics
WHO World Population
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Movies
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Class Notes
Serial Images
K12 Students
Abnormal
Embryology in the News
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School of Med Sci
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Dev Biol (Gilbert)
This page is a link to resources giving statistical information relating to death in the world. Not a happy topic, but important to understand the major trends as they also show changes in health care and disease prevention.
When looking at this "snapshot of world death", it is insightful to see the major causes of death changes over time. What do you think are the major causes of this change?
There may also be a more current report found on the WHO site, this page was prepared for an earlier version of UNSW Embryology and has only been reformatted to the current page layout.
Please email Dr Mark Hill if you wish to make a comment about this current project.