Violence, accidents are killing world's youth: study

[Kadie]

Violence, accidents are killing world's youth: study

By Kate Kelland Kate Kelland – Thu Sep 10, 7:11 pm ET

LONDON (Reuters) – Road accidents, pregnancy and childbirth complications, suicide, violence, the AIDS virus and tuberculosis are the biggest killers of young people across the world, according to a study published Friday.

Researchers supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) said their study -- the first to look at global death rates in those aged 10 to 24 -- exposed as myth adolescents' belief that they are stronger and fitter than other age groups.

In reality, they said, 2.6 million young people are dying each year and most of those deaths are preventable. Some 97 percent of the deaths were in low- and middle-income countries.

"Mortality rates in low-income and middle-income countries were almost four-fold higher than were those in high-income countries, a difference that was particularly pronounced for young women," the authors wrote on their study in The Lancet.

According to the WHO, there are more young people in the world today than ever before -- 1.8 billion 10 to 14 year-olds account for 30 percent of the world's population.

But George Patton of the Center for Adolescent Health and Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, who led the study, said the needs of this age group were often eclipsed by the very young, the elderly or the very sick when governments draw up health policies -- an approach he said was increasingly risky as economic development continues.

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[Edweird]

1. So teenagers are being killed by the same things that kill everyone else? Who knew?

Well, I guess we all do, thanks to this study.

[Arctic Dave]

2. "Mortality rates in low-income and middle-income countries were almost four-fold higher"

Are they talking about the US, I can't tell anymore.

[GreenStormCloud]

3. Since the young do not die of old age,...

then, Road accidents, pregnancy and childbirth complications, suicide, violence, the AIDS virus and tuberculosis are the biggest killers of young people across the world,are what is left.

Notice that pregnancy and childbirth are not something that can happen to the very young or the old, so that can only happen to young to middle aged women. Nothing new there.

Accidents, violence, and suicide would be have higher death rates among the young than would cancer or heart disease. Nothing new there.

AIDS is mostly sexually transmitted. Again that selects for the young to middle aged.

TB is the only surprise on the list.

Except for TB, I could have made the same list, and without an expensive study.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. Wow you mean most kids aren't dying of heart disease and cancer.

[Kadie]

5. Thank goodness they aren't.

I think the main point of the article is this...

'In reality, they said, 2.6 million young people are dying each year and most of those deaths are preventable. '

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

6. Yep.