title: Accidents and the Third World.
abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO) calls attention to a growing hazard of life in the big cities of developing countries:  accidents.  In Venezuela, 45% of deaths among 10 to 24 year olds are due to accidents, for lack of proper care.  Someone involved in an accident in Kenya is 9 times as likely to die as in the US, and an accident victim in India is up to 15 times as likely to die as one in the United Kingdom.  "With fast growing cities and land increasingly crisscrossed with pavements," reports WHO, "accidents are beginning to rival infections and parasitic diseases in the toll they take of young lives."
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D005843:Geography; D007390:International Agencies; D009026:Mortality; D009938:Organizations; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012939:Social Planning; D014480:United Nations; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization; D014944:World Health Organization
keywords: Accidental Deaths; Causes Of Death; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Development Planning; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Geographic Factors; International Agencies; Macroeconomic Factors; Mortality; Organizations; Population; Population Dynamics; Spatial Distribution; Un; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization; Who