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The Main Challenges of Global Health today: Health Diseases

  The world is far healthier than ever before global life expectancy is increasing in most countries and diseases like AIDS tuberculosis and malaria are on the decline despite decades of progress plenty of work remains every year more than 6 million children die before their fifth birthday. The majority by preventable causes rates of asthma are increasing among the young and the old and the virus like h1n1 can spread from San Diego to Shanghai. Only a matter of days those who are tasked with improving global health faced three major challenges non communicable diseases or NCDs infectious diseases and funding for treatment and prevention non communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes are the world's biggest killers in 1990.   Three of the top seven global causes of death were NCDs in 2015. It was six out of seven this is in part because global life expectancy and standards of living are on the rise as countries get richer and their populations get older people are incr...