Then you look at the rates of access to water, access to adequate healthcare, access to education, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and you see that we are basically where the DRC is, where Haiti is.
This inverse relationship between education and mortality risk in adults with diabetes reflected marked educational differences in the risk of CVD mortality.
33 The mechanisms linking cognitive function and education with mortality may not be identical, 2 but the pattern of unemployment-related mortality risk is similar when stratified by cognition or education.
In a study of the relationship between education and mortality in nine industrialised countries, Kunst et al 24 found that inequalities in mortality were twice as large in the USA, Italy and France as in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway and proposed that one potentially relevant factor was welfare and income policies.
Differences in risk factors according to menopausal status could partly explain why we did not find any association between education and mortality in this age group after 1975, whereas we observed that educational disparities among older women were more pronounced.
The resulting eight goals set a broad agenda for tackling gaps in education, child mortality, maternal health, and more.
As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling.
On the other hand, Bourne and Walker [42] using the 1981 Indian census data find that maternal education reduces mortality rates of girls more than boys.
For example, the World Bank reports that for each additional year a girl remains in education, child mortality reduces by 18 per thousand births.
The major challenges are in primary education, maternal mortality and poverty and malnutrition.
