Other diseases prevailing have a much higher burden of disease while being preventable and curable at much lower cost.
Furthermore, diseases that were previously funded more than expected such as AIDS, breast cancer, and diabetes continue to receive funding greater than predicted by burden of disease, while most conditions that were previously underfunded remain underfunded.
Sub-Saharan Africa suffers a disproportionate share of the world's burden of disease while having some of the world's greatest health care workforce shortages.
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They have a comparable burden of disease, while their populations are all larger than what the WHO recommends for a health district, ranging from 241,000 to 342,000 inhabitants.
Therefore, the income distribution seems not to have a consistent effect on the burden of disease while the income does have a strong impact.
For instance, sub-Saharan Africa has only 4% of the health workers but 25% of the global burden of disease, while the Americas have 37% of the health workers and only 10% of the burden of disease [ 2].
Notwithstanding, this observed decrease in deaths from communicable diseases, Southeast Asia and Africa together bore 54% of the total global burden of disease while accounting for only 40% of the world's population [ 20].
It is therefore unsurprising that indoor and outdoor air pollution feature in the top 10 risk factors in the global burden of disease, while lead, poor sanitation, and water quality are all present in the top 30 (2).
