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The world is not created in the image of the United States. In addition to the webpages that were available to you in the last section, you may also want to visit this one...
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death
The World Health Organization points out that Infectious Diseases still dominate the top of the list as the main killer in low-income countries (little further down on the page)
From this WHO website:
The citizens of the United States are, however, dying of mainly Chronic diseases.
Here are the Deaths and Mortality data for the most current year for those in the U.S. (this data is from 2021):
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/deaths.htm
Notice that most of the top ten causes of death are chronic in nature (not accidents/suicide or pneumonia).
The top chronic causes of death in our country include:
Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases
To know a little bit of information about each of these diseases (as a start) would go a long way in this course. So I would recommend visiting the above web links. Throughout our Wellness class we will be talking about many of these chronic diseases (as well as a few infectious diseases) and how the habits that a person chooses to do, influences the onset of these diseases.
Google Sites
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