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3 Mortality and Causes of Death
Pages 6-7

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... Adult mortality rates and trends are characterized by a much greater heterogeneity and sometimes move in opposite directions from the child mortality trends in the same country. AIDS mortality is dominating many of these all-cause mortality patterns, but the first indications of a reversal in adult mortality rates in Eastern African countries are now visible.
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From page 7...
... The presenters acknowledged that improvements in socioeconomic conditions might also have had an influence, but the results of that influence would be visible only over the long term and would not explain relatively rapid changes such as the mortality decline in the 2000s. A key takeaway point of the session was that vaccinations and efforts to combat malaria have "non-specific" effects, meaning that in addition to lowering mortality due to the specific disease being addressed, they also tend to lower mortality due to other causes.
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