"In higher-income countries, increasing life expectancy is mainly due to declining mortality among those who are older".
The fact that the rate is still rising seems to be due principally to declining mortality, particularly infant mortality.
We debunked the exaggerated finding by tracking 12 years of hospital mortality data before the campaign started, where we found no change in the already declining mortality trend.
By contrast, South Asian countries are aging more gradually and face the challenge of productively employing a growing working-age population and capturing their "demographic dividend" (from declining fertility outweighing declining mortality).
Despite declining mortality, acute renal failure remains a burden on healthcare resources.
Advances in acute care medicine have resulted in declining mortality rates after critical illness [1 4].
These results suggest a trend of declining mortality between the 1970s and the 1980s and add solid empirical evidence to the debate over whether mortality in Vietnam has been deteriorating or improving.
As the CDC points out, "Suicide is increasing against the backdrop of generally declining mortality". Of course, an increasing suicide rate is a sign of mental health, not physical health.
The exponential model can be used (in the medium and long run), when decelerating mortality reductions appear to be more plausible (or more likely to happen) than linearly declining mortality reductions.
Epidemiology case studies using administrative hospital data have reported both growing incidence and declining mortality rates associated with severe sepsis in several different countries but mainly in the USA, Australia and New Zealand [4 11].
Over the historical period leading up to the present, our analysis shows steady and substantial improvements in WASH coverage and declining mortality rates across many developing regions, namely East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
