Ten Great Public Health Achievements — Worldwide, 2001–2010

From the 24 June 2011 MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) of the CDC (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Worldwide, a child born in 1955 had an average life expectancy at birth of only 48 years (1). By 2000, the average life expectancy at birth had increased to 66 years and, if past trends continue, is projected to rise to 73 years by 2025 (1). These improvements in longevity have resulted from improved living conditions overall, advances in medical science, and a number of population-level interventions. However, major disparities persist. During the past decade, in low-income countries, average life expectancy at birth increased from 55 to 57 years (3.6%), while increasing from 78 to 80 years (2.6%) in high-income countries (2). Analogous to the recent MMWR report highlighting 10 public health achievements that occurred in the United States over the first 10 years of the new century, this report describes global public health achievements during the same period (3). Experts in global public health were asked to nominate noteworthy public health achievements that occurred outside of the United States during 2001–2010. From them, 10 have been summarized in this report. As with the previous report, the 10 global public health achievements are not ranked in any order. Additional information regarding these achievements is available athttp://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6019a5_addinfo.htm….

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And a short  listing…with links…to these Top 10

 

Learn more about the CDC science and programmatic work that went into the “Ten Great Public Health Achievements — Worldwide, 2001–2010” at these links:

• CDC’s Role in Global Health
  • Global Health
• Reductions in Child Mortality
  • United Nations: Milenniem Development Goals (MDG)
• Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  • Vaccines & Immunizations
  • Global Immunizations and Vaccinations
• Access to Safe Water and Sanitation
  • Food and Water Safety and Hand Hygiene Resources
  • Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH)
• Malaria Prevention and Control
  • Malaria
  • Roll Back Malaria Partnership
• Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Global HIV/AIDS
• Tuberculosis Control
  • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • CDC Factsheet on HIV and TB
  • World Health Organization (WHO): Tuberculosis (TB)
• Control of Neglected Tropical Disease
  • Parasites – Dracunculiasis (also known as Guinea Worm Disease)
  • Parasites – Onchocerciasis (also known as River Blindness)
  • Parasites – Lymphatic Filariasis
  • World Health Organization (WHO): Lymphatic filariasis
• Tobacco Control
  • Smoking & Tobacco Use
  • Global Tobacco Control
  • World Health Organization (WHO): Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) 
    MPOWER: Six policies to reverse the tobacco epidemic 
• Increased Awareness and Response for Improving Global Road Safety
  • Global Road Safety
  • World Health Organization (WHO): World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention
• Improved Preparedness and Response to Global Health Threats
  • Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
  • Global Disease Detection (GDD)
  • World Health Organization (WHO): International Health Regulations (IHR)