Table 2.
Avertable and amenable mortality and mortality related to non-utilisation of services versus use of poor-quality services by region
|
Avertable deaths |
Amenable deaths |
Years of life lost to poor quality (per 1000 population) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths preventable by public health interventions | Deaths amenable to health care | Deaths due to use of poor-quality services | Deaths due to non-utilisation of health services | ||
| Andean Latin America | 18 156 | 36 809 | 21 408 (58·2%) | 15 401 (41·8%) | 1129 |
| Caribbean | 37 167 | 43 742 | 29 861 (68·3%) | 13 881 (31·7%) | 1221 |
| Central Asia | 85 651 | 118 595 | 74 880 (63·1%) | 43 715 (36·9%) | 3322 |
| Central Europe | 41 689 | 53 014 | 41 779 (78·8%) | 11 235 (21·2%) | 1138 |
| Central Latin America | 40 102 | 208 265 | 143 847 (69·1%) | 64 418 (30·9%) | 6432 |
| Central sub-Saharan Africa | 291 999 | 273 717 | 142 044 (51·9%) | 131 674 (48·1%) | 8429 |
| East Asia | 875 835 | 1 335 030 | 664 893 (49·8%) | 670 137 (50·2%) | 23 023 |
| Eastern Europe | 428 032 | 294 519 | 187 790 (63·8%) | 106 729 (36·2%) | 6009 |
| Eastern sub-Saharan Africa | 804 363 | 721 395 | 349 785 (48·5%) | 371 610 (51·5%) | 19 668 |
| North Africa and Middle East | 440 319 | 521 815 | 325 743 (62·4%) | 196 072 (37·6%) | 17 590 |
| Oceania | 19 707 | 20 721 | 12 742 (61·5%) | 7980 (38·5%) | 559 |
| South Asia | 1 900 170 | 3 016 686 | 1 944 044 (64·4%) | 1 072 641 (35·6%) | 81 540 |
| Southeast Asia | 515 460 | 788 335 | 481 259 (61·0%) | 307 075 (39·0%) | 19 657 |
| Southern Latin America | 10 010 | 39 488 | 29 229 (74·0%) | 10 258 (26·0%) | 1118 |
| Southern sub-Saharan Africa | 258 889 | 152 119 | 85 709 (56·3%) | 66 410 (43·7%) | 4825 |
| Tropical Latin America | 78 825 | 210 086 | 157 573 (75·0%) | 52 513 (25·0%) | 6155 |
| Western sub-Saharan | 1 154 824 | 812 987 | 354 744 (43·6%) | 458 243 (56·4%) | 22 566 |
| Total | 7 001 198 | 8 647 323 | 5 047 330 (58·3%) | 3 599 993 (41·6%) | 224 381 |
Avertable mortality was defined as the sum of preventable deaths (averted through public health and other population-level intersectoral policies or interventions that prevent the disease or condition in the first place) and amenable deaths (averted by health care once a condition occurs). Amenable deaths comprised deaths due to use of poor-quality services and deaths due to non-utilisation of health services.