Dear HIFA colleagues,
WHO has just published an update on the top 10 causes of death
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death
It is frustrating that the website does not allow me to copy and paste the top 10 causes of death for you. So I have to write them manually:
1. Ischaemic heart disease
2. Stroke
3. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
4. Lower respiratory infections
5. Alzheimer disease and other dementias
6. Diabetes
7. Respiratory cancers
8. Hypertensive heart disease
9. Renal disease
10. Diarrhoeal disease
There are in fact several lists of top 10, with a focus on differences bewteen LMICs and HICs.
There is no 'top 10' for other parameters such as age. WHO provides child mortality statistics separately: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-details/GHO/child-...
As always, the focus is on the medical causes of death. Poor-quality care as a cause of death, based primarily on a failure to translate reliable healthcare information into policy and practice, is not considered.
Best wishes, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org