Suicide: the leading cause of maternal death

Suicide: leading cause of death among women in Nepal.

An epidemiologic review of suicide and its prevention was done in Canada in the year 1989. The risk factors found were agemen aged 70 years or above, women aged 65 to 69 and men aged 20 to 24, mental illness, previous suicidal attempt, life-threatening illness, native people, people with a family history of suicide and prisoners in the descending order.3 Unlike the findings in Canada, suicidal ...

Suicide is leading cause of death in young Indian women, finds international study.

Preterm birth: now the leading cause of child death worldwide.

dren is not an infectious disease but rather is preterm birth. Each year, 1.09 million children under 5 years of age die from direct complications of being born before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. T is means that there are 3000 child deaths each day from causes that include respiratory complications due to lung immaturity, lack of warmth, or lack of feeding support (1). Although infectious ...

Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death

This paper analyzes the relationships between personal decisions and premature deaths in the United States. The analysis indicates that over one million of the 2.4 million deaths in 2000 can be attributed to personal decisions and could have been avoided if readily available alternative choices were made. Separate analyses indicate 46% of deaths due to heart disease and 66% of cancer deaths are...

Analysis of Trend of Death Rate and Leading Cause of Death among Young People in Eastern Mediterranean Countries during 1990-2019

Background and Objectives: One of the important basis of health planning in any society is to identify the causes of death and the trend of each cause in that country over time. The purpose of this study is to investigate the trend of youth mortality and causes od death among young population of the Eastern Mediterranean region. Methods: The present study conducted based on a secondary longitu...