First Lady Christine Kaseba-Sata told an international conference on global health burden that Zambia will greatly benefit from the results of a recent study that describes and locates patterns of disease globally.
Dr Kaseba-Sata was speaking in London yesterday at the Royal Society at Carlton House Terrace during a conference discussing, among other things, the results of the study: “Rapid Health Transitions-Findings and Implications of the Global Burden of Disease 2010,” jointly conducted by Lancet, the London-based health research group, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Washington University.
The First Lady, who featured on a panel session that discussed the implications of the global disease burden said specific data on Zambia will help the countrty address the challenges highlighted on the one hand, and strenthen positive areas on the other.
Zambia High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Lt. Col Bizwayo Nkunika, Counsellor for Economics Mrs Ikayi Mushinge, First Secretary for Consular Affairs, Mr Steward Nchimunya, and Press Secretary Mr Amos Chanda accompanied the First Lady at the conference.
The conference attracted leading health experts from national governments, the United Nations, other international organisations, universities, research institutions and several non-state actors in the health sector.
Some of the topics by other discussants included mortality and causes of death, disability and injuries and risk assessment.The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is the largest-ever systematic effort to describe the global distribution and causes of a wide array of major diseases, injuries, and health risk factors.
The results show that infectious diseases, maternal and child illness, and malnutrition cause fewer deaths and less illness than they did 20 years ago.Fewer children are dying every year, but more young and middle-aged adults are dying and living with disease and injury, as non-communicable diseases become the dominant cause of death and disability worldwide.Since 1990, men and women worldwide have gained slightly more than 10 years of life expectancy, but spend more years living with injury and illness the report says.
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I will only be inspired if Christine were to permanently put her b.u.t.t down on a chair in some clinics around Lusaka. She should be attending to patients and not touring oil facilities in Dar and then hopping on a plane to London to just go and say, “Zambia will benefit….” Inspirational…my foot!
Ceremonial Minister of Health.
Keep it up mum. We love you. We always feel proud of you.
It’s god to have a chair on such a panel. What should be made known is how Zambia plans on using these data and programs that will stem the high mortality rates. But in order to do that we need an adequately functional and accessible health care system. There’s need for more emphasis on STEM in the country as well as more investment in not only equipment but train more techs to repair medical equipment. I could go on but instead I will recommend the MOH look at what’s been done in other countries. Fund the health care and education sectors. But instead we have construction of a new soccer stadium; a good thing but of little benefit. There are similar such misappropriations we should eliminate, like presidential housing, it’s a farce.
That ought to read ‘good’ not ‘god’.
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