Sunday, September 1, 2013

Life expectancy gap growing between rich/poor world women: WHO

Residents are seen in a senior citizens' home in Svetlograd By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Life expectancy for women at 50 has improved, but the gap between poor and rich countries is growing and could worsen without better detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease and cancers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. A WHO study, one of the first to analyze the causes of death of older women, found that in wealthier countries deaths from noncommunicable diseases has fallen dramatically in recent decades, especially from cancers of the stomach, colon, breast and cervix. ...








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/life-expectancy-gap-growing-between-rich-poor-world-221437198.html

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