Reduced morbidity and mortality from malaria depend on delivering interventions to hard-to-reach populations.
Vaccination remains important as a means of reducing the morbidity and mortality caused by influenza viruses.
The Department of Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS), with over 120 staff worldwide aims to reduce maternal, perinatal and newborn morbidity and mortality.
Malaria control is finally showing solid progress with rapid improvements in morbidity and mortality documented in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Zambia.
Additionally, the model suggests that there could be a significant reduction of HIV-related morbidity and mortality in resource-limited countries with generalized HIV epidemics.
Yet, as is so often the case in public health, when one thick layer of morbidity and mortality begins to thin, it reveals more starkly another critical problem.
"If anything, our findings should alert clinicians to be aware that [people with SMI] are at very high risk" of morbidity and mortality.
Data on morbidity and mortality caused by enteric fever between 1994 and 2004 were extracted from the Guangxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
And now, this study shows that sleep disturbance is often related to depressive disorders in late life, which carry further considerable risks for morbidity and mortality.
Again, in the absence of well-functioning health systems, we are unlikely to get even the most basic population data on morbidity and mortality.
