Plus 22 years
Since 1950, people have been living 22 years longer, scientists have found
Russian and foreign experts have found that compared with 1950, the infant mortality rate has decreased seven times, and the average life expectancy has increased by two decades. Such data is published in a special issue of the Lancet magazine.
"Global Burden of Disease (Global Burden of Disease) is a systematic scientific work aimed at studying how health initiatives allow you to save years of life, including healthy, full-fledged. The global level of research makes it possible to identify both weaknesses in the organization of health care and "spots" in statistical data," says Stanislav Otstanov from MIPT in Dolgoprudny.
The GBD project is one of the largest monitoring projects that is constantly being conducted by the UN, the Institute for the Study of Health Metrics in Seattle and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It involves specialists from 195 countries, their medical services and leading scientific centers.
According to the press service of Phystech, domestic scientists from MIPT, HSE, Sechenov University, the Central Research Institute for the Organization and Informatization of Healthcare and the Center for Expertise and Quality Control of Medical Care took part in this work.
In addition to statistics in recent years, GBD participants are also studying longer-term trends reflecting changes in the health systems and demography of the planet over several decades. In the latest series of works of this kind, they assessed how the life of mankind has changed from 1950 to 2017.
The results of this analysis turned out to be quite optimistic: despite all the wars, economic upheavals and other problems characteristic of the modern world, the average life expectancy of men has increased from 48 years to seventy and a half years and from 53 to 76 years for women. In 1950, every fifth child died in the first five years of life, whereas today this figure is at the level of 3.9 percent.
At the same time, new problems arose. For example, the number of deaths related to conflicts, wars and terrorism has almost doubled in the last ten years. The situation with obesity-related diseases has changed in a similar way.
The number of overweight people has increased in almost all countries of the world, which has led to more than a million deaths per year from type 2 diabetes and 500 thousand deaths from kidney diseases associated with insulin immunity.
According to such indicators as the density of healthcare workers per 1000 people, coverage of medical services, the prevalence of hygiene and sanitation, the availability of clean water, clean air and a number of others, Russia has very high values. The average life expectancy of Russians has also increased.
From the editorial office:
About what is "very high" and how much the life expectancy of Russian citizens has increased, RIA Novosti is shamefully silent. And articles in the media very often cite optimistic figures voiced by officials, omitting the word "expected" – that is, for those who were born this year. And the average (simplified – average age of death) life expectancy in Russia, of course, has increased, but last year's article in Novye Izvestia, it begins like this:
"On the eve of the collapse of the USSR, the average life expectancy in our country was already lagging behind the most developed countries, but still it was 69th place in the world for women (74 years) and 105th place in the world for men (64 years). Today it is already 102 place (77.6 years) and 143 place (67.5), which is lower than in North Korea."
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