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By Melinda Smith
Washington
24 October 2007
 
The World Health Organization reports that at least ten million children under the age of five die every year. And a new international study of childhood mortality confirms that children would live longer if they had better diets, cleaner sanitation 1 and safer water. VOA's Melinda Smith has more on the report published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.


It sounds like an obvious conclusion: children can live longer if they are given a balanced diet, access to clean air, safe water and sanitation.


But that is a difficult goal to achieve for many poor families living in developing countries. Children under the age of five are among the most vulnerable.


A study of 42 countries has focused on the placement of resources needed to dramatically reduce the number of young children dying from poor nutrition or environmental causes.


Majid Ezzati of the Harvard University School of Public Health is an author of the study, published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association says, "In three regions of the world, in Latin America, in sub-Saharan Africa and in South Asia, we would be able to save well more than two million child deaths per year."


Ezzati and his colleagues found that child deaths could be cut yearly by 14 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean, by 24 percent in South Asia and by 31 percent in sub-Saharan Africa -- if money and resources were directly aimed at the poorest of the poor. Ezzati explains what is needed, "What we are asking in this is not necessarily more resources for this, but better packaging of those resources and better delivery of it, and better monitoring and evaluation 2 of who is receiving them."


The Harvard researchers compiled data from these three regions of the world. They looked at economic status, water and sanitation conditions, even fuels used in cooking and maintaining the household.


In the year 2000, the United Nations set goals to reduce poverty and improve the ability of poor nations to feed and sustain their people by the year 2015. But world health experts are now concerned that some countries may not achieve these target rates by that time.


The release of this study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is part of a collaboration 3 of 200 medical and scientific journals to increase worldwide awareness 4 of the link between poverty and human development.


Video courtesy of The Journal of the American Medical Association



n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看,这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
n.估价,评价;赋值
  • I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
  • The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。
n.合作,协作;勾结
  • The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
  • He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
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