Top ten death causes in the world

1. Top Ten Death
Causes in the World

2. WHO the Top Ten Death Causes in the
World are as follows:
1.Ischaemic Heart Disease
2.Stroke
3.Lower Respiratory Infections
4.Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
5.Diarrhoeal Disease

3. 6.HIV/AIDS
7.Trachea Bronchus, Lung
Cancer
8. Diabetes Mellitus
9.Road Injury
10. Prematurity

4. Ischaemic heart disease
– is a medical condition defined by interrupted or
restricted blood flow through arteries in the heart
muscle.

5. Cause:
•
smoke
•
have high blood pressure (hypertension)
•
have a high blood cholesterol level
•
do not take regular exercise
•
have diabetes

6. Stroke
– sometimes referred as cerebrovascular accident
(CVA) is the rapid loss of brain function due to
disturbance in the blood supply to the brain.

7. Cause
• A stroke occurs when the blood supply to your
brain is interrupted or reduced
• A stroke may be caused by a blocked artery
(ischemic stroke) or a leaking or burst blood
vessel (hemorrhagic stroke)
• Obesity

8. Effect:
•
visual field loss
• Paralysis
• loss of speech, difficulty talking, or
understanding what others are saying

9. Lower Respiratory
Infections
– while often used as synonym for pneumonia
can also be applied to other types of infection

10. Effect of Lower
respiratory Infections
•
flu
•
bronchitis
•
pneumonia
•
bronchiolitis
•
tuberculosis

11. Cause:
• Viruses
• Bacteria

12. COPD
– one of the most common lung diseases. It makes it
difficult to breath.

13. Cause of COPD:
•Smoking
•Genetics
•Being over age 50
•Exposure to toxic chemicals such as
silica or cadmium
•Working around industrial smoke,
excessive dust, or other air
pollutants (for example, miners,
furnace workers, and grain
farmers)

14. Diarrhoeal Disease
- 2nd
leading cause of death in children over year.
Diarrhoeal is defined as the passage of 3 or more lot of
liquid stools per day or frequent passage.

15. Cause of diarrheal
• Viruses.
• Bacteria and parasites.
• Medications.
• Artificial sweeteners

16. HIV/AIDS
– is a disease of the human immune system caused by
infection with human immunodefiency virus.

17. • Unprotected vaginal or anal intercourse with an infected person.
• A mother's infection passing to her child during pregnancy, birth
or breastfeeding (called vertical transmission) – the risk of HIV
passing from mother to child is approximately 30% if no preventative
measure is used.
• Injection with contaminated needles, which may occur when
intravenous drug users share

18. • Use of contaminated surgical instruments, for example
during traditional circumcision.
• Blood transfusion with infected blood.
• Contact of a mucous-membrane surface with infected blood
or body fluid, for example with a splash in the eye (Note that
the virus cannot penetrate undamaged skin.)

19. Trachea Bronchus,
Lung Cancer
– also known as carcinoma of the lung is a disease
characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of
the lung.

20. Causes
• Smoking,
• Radon gas
• Asbestos
• Air pollution

21. Diabetes Mellitus
– or simply diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases
in which a person has high blood sugar

22. 2 types of diabetes
mellitus
• Type 1 diabetes is caused by the immune system
destroying the cells in the pancreas that make
insulin. This causes diabetes by leaving the body
without enough insulin to function normally.
• Type 2 diabetes causes are usually multifactorial
- more than one diabetes cause is involved.
Often, the most overwhelming factor is a family
history of type 2 diabetes

23. Road Injury
– common of this is an accident that happens in
the road. Most of the involved cases in here is vehicular
accident.

24. Causes
• Drink Driving
• Seat Belt Wearing
• Careless Driving
• Failed to Look Properly

25. Prematurity
– is the term of neonates born at less than 37
weeks gestation.

26. Causes
• Multiple pregnancy
• Lifestyle factors

30. Reference:
•http://en.wikipedia.org
•https://www.google.com.ph/
•http://www.who.int/en/