Performance on key health parameters
Sri Lanka best among peers:
Among peers and neighbours, Sri Lanka appears to be performing best
when it comes to the key parameters of health.
This was revealed in the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and
Risk Factors 2010 Study (GBD 2010), a collaborative project led by the
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of
Washington.
The study details the causes of death and disability ” across age
groups and genders” for 187 countries around the world. Sri Lanka and
China fight for the top spot in the region on most parameters followed
by Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. India and Pakistan figure at the
bottom.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an
independent global health research center at the University of
Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the
world’s most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used
to address them.
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