PHA-Exchange> Ten facts about social determinants of health and inequites

[Claudio]

1. Less than 2% of governments globally have a coherent structured approach to address the social determinants of health.
2. Annually, the health system is the cause of about 1% of families globally experiencing catastrophic expenditures (and up to 5% in some coutries).
3. Life expectancy at birth ranges from 34 in Sierra Leone to 82 in Japan.
4.The probability of a man dying between ages 15 and 60 is 8% in Sweden,  46% in Russia, and 90% in Lesotho.
5. In Australia, there is a 20-year gap in life expectancy between Australian Aboriginals  and the Australian average.
6. Low and middl-income countries accout for 85% of the world's road deaths.
7. Nearly 11 million deaths in 2002 were among children under five and 98% of them were in developing countries.
8. About one out of six people in the world, or about 15%, live in wealthy countries. But only 7% of all deaths annually occur in those countries.
9. Income inequality is increasing in countries that account for more than 80% of the world's population.
10. In 1996, 358 billionaires had a net worth of U$760 billion which equalled the wealth of the poorest 45% of the entire world's population.
 
[Sources: WHO and Canadian Institute for Advaned Research]]
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