Résumé :
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The report focuses mainly on the low-income countries and on the poor in middle-income countries. The low-income countries, with 2.5 billion people and especially the countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with 650 million people have far lower life expectancies and far higher age-adjusted mortality rates than the rest of the world, as shown in the accompanying. The same is true for the poor in middle income countries,such as China. To reduce these staggeringly high mortality rates, the control of communicable diseases and improved maternal and child health remain the highest public health priorities. The main causes of avoidable deaths in the low-income countries are HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis(TB), childhood infectious diseases, maternal and perinatal conditions, micronutrient deficiencies, and tobacco-related illnesses. (from the abstract)
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