- Communicable diseases cause 6 of the region’s 14 million annual deaths, which in turn contribute 42% of all the disability-adjusted life years lost (WHO, 2010).
- Socioeconomic factors
- Environmental and behavioral factors
- Movement from place to place spreads disease
- Communicable diseases have a negative affect due to globalization and rapid economic activity
- Not enough resources for public health
- Nearly 2 million children under the age of 5 years die annually in the world from pneumonia and acute diarrhea, in Africa and South-East Asian countries, despite the fact that there are simple and cost-effective ways to fix these problems (WHO, 2010).
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2010;88:162-162. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.065169
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