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FACTORS AFFECTING MORTALITY (INJURY RELATED DEATH (Industrial Injuries…
FACTORS AFFECTING MORTALITY
POVERTY
People in MICs and LICs are likely to die at a young age because they have a high death rate. This reason is the most significant factor of mortality
INFANT MORTALITY
Areas with high rates of babies dying increases the country's overall death rates because it decreases the overall growth of a population
MEDICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Death rates fall as a country gets richer, because health care gets higher and diets improve which improves life expectancy
AGEING POPULATION
An increasing population leads to a higher death rate because despite health care, however good it is people still die
HIV/AIDS
Have a major effect on mortality rates
In Botswana, 25% of the population that is between 15-49 are HIV/AIDS positive. Almost 16% died due HIV in 2010
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
INJURY RELATED DEATH
Industrial Injuries
Are high in industrial countries that have increases their factory jobs, but where health and safety laws are lacking
Road Accidents
They increase as the global population have access to motor vehicles
Murder and War Casualties
Zones what have a lot of conflict, like Iraq, have high death rates because of all the fighting that is happening