Making visible global injustice in health: mapping the causes of 57 million deaths

Making visible global injustice in health: mapping the causes of 57 million deaths Danny Dorling / Benjamin Hennig University of Sheffield Medsin Global Health Conference Newcastle, 28 March 2010 this map transforms into one showing where infants in the world die

Live and let die
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study there are approximately 57 million people dying a year:
57,000,000 a year;
these are 157,000 a day;
or 2 persons dying every second.
This presentation shows, why there is someone dying every half second;
This presentation shows, how the world looks like when health, disease, and death are put onto maps;
This presentation shows, how unequal health is distributed globally...

How healthy is the world? Mapping Health
General overview

Public Health Spending
2228 billion PPP US$, $39,000 per death per year

Private Health Spending
1847 billion PPP US$, $4 for every $5 spent by the state

Physicians Working
9.56 million, one physician for every 6 deaths a year

Early Neonatal Mortality
3.01 million, one within 7 days of birth for every 3 physicians

HIV/AIDS Prevalence
29.22 million, one in every 200 people in the world

Malaria Cases
71.9 million, 7.5 cases per physician in the world

What are they all dying from? Mapping Causes of Death
Grouped in three broad groups of causes

Preventable Deaths
people who died from most preventable (communicable infections, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions) in one year

Cause of Death: Often Preventable Deaths
18,475,000 a year; 51,000 a day; one every 2 seconds...

Cause of Death: Infectious and Parasitic Disease

Cause of Death: Tuberculosis

Cause of Death: HIV/AIDS

Cause of Death: STDs Excluding HIV
180,000 a year; 493 a day; one every 3 minutes...

Cause of Death: Syphilis

Cause of Death: Chlamydia

Cause of Death: Gonorrhoea
959 a year; 3 a day; one every 9 hours...

Cause of Death: Diarrhoea
1,871,000 a year; 5126 a day; one every 17 seconds...

Cause of Death: Vaccine Preventable Deaths

Cause of Death: Whooping Cough

Cause of Death: Tetanus
214,000 a year; 586 a day; one every 2½ minutes...

Cause of Death: Diphtheria
5,452 a year; 15 a day; one every 1½ hours...

Cause of Death: Polio
831 a year; 2 a day; one every 10½ hours...

Cause of Death: Measles
607,000 a year; 1,663 a day; one every 52 seconds...

Cause of Death: Meningitis

Cause of Death: Hepatitus B

Cause of Death: Hepatitus C

Cause of Death: Malaria

Cause of Death: Local Tropical Diseases

Cause of Death: Sleeping sickness

Cause of Death: Chagas Disease

Cause of Death: Schistosomiasis

Cause of Death: Leishmaniasis

Cause of Death: Elephantiasis
417 a year; one every 21 hours...

Cause of Death: Leprosy

Cause of Death: Dengue

Cause of Death: Japanese Encephalitis

Cause of Death: Intestinal Worm Infection

Cause of Death: Roundworm Infection

Cause of Death: Whipworm Infection
3,019 a year; 8 a day; one every 3 hours...

Cause of Death: Hookworm Disease
2,941 a year; 8 a day; one every 3 hours...

Cause of Death: All Respiratory Infection Deaths

Cause of Death: Pneumonia

Cause of Death: Nose and Throat Infection

Cause of Death: Ear Infection

Cause of Death: Deaths of Women from Pregnancy
510,000 a year; 1397 a day; one every minute...

Cause of Death: Deaths of Babies from Childbirth

Cause of Death: Low Birth Weight Related

Cause of Death: Birth Injury Related

Cause of Death: All Nutritional Deficiences Deaths

Cause of Death: Deaths from Starvation

Cause of Death: Vitamin A Deficiency

Cause of Death: Iron Deficiency Anaemia

Cause of Death: Iodine Deficiency

Cause of Death: Non-Communicable Illnesses
33,630,000 a year; 92,137 a day; one every second...

Cause of Death: All Cancer Deaths

Cause of Death: Mouth Cancer
318,000 a year; 871 a day; one every 99 seconds...

Cause of Death: Throat Cancer

Cause of Death: Stomach Cancer

Cause of Death: Bowel Cancer

Cause of Death: Liver Cancer

Cause of Death: Pancreas Cancer

Cause of Death: Lung Cancer

Cause of Death: Skin Cancer

Cause of Death: Breast Cancer

Cause of Death: Cancer of the Cervix

Cause of Death: Cancer of the Uterus

Cause of Death: Ovary Cancer

Cause of Death: Prostate Cancer

Cause of Death: Bladder Cancer

Cause of Death: Lymphoma

Cause of Death: Leukaemia

Cause of Death: Other Tumour Deaths

Cause of Death: Diabetes

Cause of Death: Endocrine and other disorders

Cause of Death: Brain Disorder

Cause of Death: Depression Related

Cause of Death: Manic-depression
733 a year; 2 a day; one every 12 hours...

Cause of Death: Schizophrenia

Cause of Death: Epilepsy

Cause of Death: Alcohol Use Disorders

Cause of Death: Dementias

Cause of Death: Parkinson Disease

Cause of Death: Multiple Sclerosis

Cause of Death: Drug Use Disorders

Cause of Death: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
56 a year; one every 6½ days...

Cause of Death: Eye and Ear Disease

Cause of Death: Glaucoma
102 a year; one every 86 days...

Cause of Death: All Cardiovascular Disease Deaths

Cause of Death: Rheumatic Heart Disease

Cause of Death: Stroke

Cause of Death: Heart Attack

Cause of Death: Hypertensive Heart Disease

Cause of Death: Inflammatory Heart Disease

Cause of Death: Respiratory Disease

Cause of Death: Chronic Bronchitis

Cause of Death: Asthma

Cause of Death: Digestive Tract Diseases

Cause of Death: Peptic Ulcer Disease

Cause of Death: Cirrhosis Of The Liver

Cause of Death: Appendicitis

Cause of Death: Genitourinary Tract Diseases

Cause of Death: Kidney Disease

Cause of Death: Deaths from enlarged Prostate

Cause of Death: Skin Disease

Cause of Death: All Musculoskeletal Disease Deaths

Cause of Death: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Cause of Death: Osteoarthritis

Cause of Death: Birth Defects

Cause of Death: Oral Conditions

Cause of Death: All Injury Deaths

Cause of Death: All Accidental Deaths

Cause of Death: Road Traffic Accident

Cause of Death: Accidental Poisoning

Cause of Death: Deaths from Falls

Cause of Death: Deaths from Fires

Cause of Death: Deaths from Drowning

Cause of Death: Other Accidental Injury Deaths

Cause of Death: All Non-accidental Deaths

Cause of Death: Suicide

Cause of Death: Murder

Cause of Death: War

War Deaths
people who died from war in one year

When are they all dying? Mapping the Age of Death
Sorted from oldest to youngest people

Age of Death: 100+
92,585 deaths; 254 per day; one every 341 seconds...

Age of Death: 95-99
484,416 deaths; 1,327 per day; one every 65 seconds...

Age of Death: 90-94
1,563,557 deaths; 4,284 per day; one every 20 seconds...

Age of Death: 85-89

Age of Death: 80-84

Age of Death: 75-79

Age of Death: 70-74

Age of Death: 65-69

Age of Death: 60-64

Age of Death: 55-59

Age of Death: 50-54

Age of Death: 45-49

Age of Death: 40-44

Age of Death: 35-39

Age of Death: 30-34

Age of Death: 25-29

Age of Death: 20-24

Age of Death: 15-19

Age of Death: 10-14

Age of Death: 5-9

Age of Death: 1-4
2,556,272 deaths; 7004 per day; one every 12 seconds...

Age of Death: Infants (aged under 1)

From Map to Cartogram
Infant Mortality

World maps by the Worldmapper team
Slides and animations by Benjamin Hennig
Slides available on http://www.slideshare.net/geosasi
For a definition of all the causes and the data see www.worldmapper.org
New estimates on causes of death are due to be released by the end of 2010 in the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
http://www.globalburden.org
Credits

World maps by the Worldmapper team
Slides and animations by Benjamin Hennig
Animated slides available on http://sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/dorling_danny/lectures.html
For a definition of all the causes and the data see www.worldmapper.org
New estimates on causes of death are due to be released by the end of 2010 in the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
http://www.globalburden.org
Credits Dorling, D. (2007). Worldmapper: The human anatomy of a small planet. PLoS Medicine 4(1), 13-18. Dorling, D. and Barford, A. (2007). Shaping the world to illustrate inequalities in health. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 85(11), 821-900. Dorling, D. and Barford, A. (2007). The shape of global causes of death. International Journal of Health Geographies, 6(48). Infant mortality in affluent countries at the end of the nineteenth century rose as charitable giving rose. Mortality then fell as public anger at social injustice was converted into political change. Political change which then used medical knowledge. References

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Making visible global injustice in health: mapping the causes of 57 million deaths

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