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Rapid health transition in China, 1990–2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 : The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61097-1/fulltext?_eventId=login

...levels of premature mortality in China relative to other members of the G20 in 2010.

For men in China in 2010, age-standardised rates of years of life lost due to ischaemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, cirrhosis, diabetes, preterm birth complications, chronic kidney diseases, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis were significantly better than the G20 mean. China had significantly worse ranks than the mean for stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, liver cancer, stomach cancer, oesophageal cancer, leukaemia, drowning, and falls. The YLL rates of road injury and lung cancer for 2010 are indistinguishable from the mean but the absolute increase in YLLs from these causes is concerning. For women in China, we noted better than G20 average performance on ischaemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, diabetes, breast cancer, preterm birth complications, chronic kidney diseases, cervical cancer, cirrhosis, and cardiovascular and circulatory diseases. We noted worse than G20 average outcomes for stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, road injury, self-harm, liver cancer, stomach cancer, oesophageal cancer, falls, drowning, and rheumatic heart disease.

Even for conditions such as ischaemic heart disease, lung cancer, and diabetes (for which China was better than average in the G20 in 2010), rising rates suggest that this status might change in the near future.

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Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror” - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/22/pers-m22.html

Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror”
22 May 2013

Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla died May 17 at the age of 87 as the result of injuries suffered from a fall in a prison shower. He was remembered as the head of a savage military dictatorship that between 1976 and 1983 murdered and “disappeared” some 30,000 Argentine workers, socialist militants, teachers, students and others perceived as “subversives,” while torturing at least 100,000 others. In his own country, newspapers that once backed his rule condemned him as a dictator and practitioner of state terror.

Yet one cannot help but suspect that within the military and intelligence apparatus in the US and Latin America—not to mention among the ruling financial interests that he served—the aged general’s passing has been mourned.

#argentine #dictature #videla

Protesters break through separation wall | Maan News Agency
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=596555

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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians on Friday tore a hole through part of Israel’s separation wall in the town of al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem, witnesses said.

Protesters were marking the Nakba anniversary and upon reaching the wall they ripped a 4-meter hole in it.

Clashes broke out after the incident and Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets. Several injuries were reported.

An Israeli army spokeswoman did not immediately return calls.

Activists uploaded footage of the damage on YouTube and Facebook.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xiVO9tGTICw

Errant Syrian mortar shells land in southern Golan Heights - Haaretz Daily Newspaper

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/errant-syrian-mortar-shells-land-in-southern-golan-heights-1.506738

At least three shells found in an open area just west of the Syria-Israel border; no damage or casualties reported; IDF files complaint with UN observer force on border over incident.

Three mortar shells fired from over the Syrian border landed in the southern Golan Heights Saturday afternoon, landing in an uninhabited area near Moshav Ramat Magshimim and causing no injuries or damage. On Friday, meanwhile, according to Syrian opposition figures, a 2,000-year-old synagogue was destroyed by shelling from forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.

The Israel Defense Forces has filed a complaint with the United Nations oberver force on the border. Sources within the IDF believe that the event is another incident of hostilities between the army of Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels spilling over the border.

#syrie #israël #golan

Israeli Doctors Are Treating Boston Bombing Suspect: New Details on His Condition - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-doctors-treating-boston-bombing-suspect-details-condition-131043

As 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev “clings to life,” Israeli media revealed that two of the senior doctors treating Tsarnaev have abundant past experience treating victims of terror. That’s because they’re from Israel.

IED Attacks on the Bahraini Foreign MInistry

Bahrain says four suspects have been arrested after homemade firebombs were hurled at the foreign ministry in a possible escalation of anti-government protests.

The Interior Ministry said Tuesday there were no injuries or serious damage from the Molotov cocktails. The late Monday attack was a rare attempt to strike government offices.

AP

Point de vue particulièrement pertinent : Has Citizenship Got a Future in Egypt ? - Paul Sedra
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11111/has-citizenship-got-a-future-in-egypt

I have written before in these pages about Egyptian sectarianism, its modern origins and recent manifestations. The impulse to lay the blame for this sectarianism at the feet of the Muslim Brotherhood is strong and, in my view, not without justification, particularly given the sectarian incitement in which the organization has engaged since its rise to power. Indeed, only two weeks ago, Amnesty International issued a press release directed at Egypt’s rulers whose title read, “Egypt’s Coptic Christians must be protected from sectarian violence.”

But the language of that title points to a tendency that, I would venture, bears nearly as much responsibility for the current violence as the Brotherhood. The notion of “protection” referenced by Amnesty conjures up an image of Coptic Christians in Egypt as an inert, monolithic bloc – a bloc whose leadership is assumed to reside with the Church. What is missing here is the notion of citizenship – the notion of Copts as Egyptian citizens, equal before Egyptian law and the Egyptian state to their Muslim compatriots. 

The irony of this language of “protection,” as deployed not only by Amnesty but a wide variety of human rights organizations, is that this language is central to the Muslim Brotherhood’s own conception of Copts and their place in Egyptian society. Indeed, if one is to take the constitution produced by a Brotherhood-dominated assembly as a guide, Egypt’s current rulers conceive of Copts not so much as equal citizens but as a distinctly sectarian constituency that is best left in the hands of the Church. For instance, Article 3 of the constitution vouchsafes control of the personal status affairs of the Coptic Orthodox to the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch, regardless of whether particular Copts are, in fact, believers or not.

All in all, the way in which Copts are discussed, both in Egyptian public discourse and in the international media, seems stuck in the nineteenth century, with commentators still relying on the conventional wisdoms of the millet paradigm – according to which Ottoman rulers relied upon clerical leaders to represent the political interests of their respective sects. Under these circumstances, how can one possibly have a meaningful conversation about citizenship – about how the Egyptian revolution might shape conceptions of Egyptian identity?

Dissecting IDF propaganda : The numbers behind the rocket attacks | Mondoweiss
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Multiplication du nombre de décès par 2 à 5 (ou même création ex nihilo) ; Liste de blessés composée essentiellement de chocs émotionnels ; Etc...

Un jeune Palestinien tué par des tirs de soldats israéliens
http://www.romandie.com/news/n/Un_jeune_Palestinien_tue_par_des_tirs_de_soldats_israeliens18030420132347.

Israël a mis en garde mercredi contre toute attaque en provenance de Gaza ou du plateau du Golan syrien, après des tirs consécutifs à la mort d’un prisonnier palestinien dans un hôpital israélien. En soirée, un jeune Palestinien de 16 ans a été tué par des tirs de soldats israéliens.

Deux autres Palestiniens ont été blessés par ces tirs, qui se sont produits près de Tulkarem dans le nord de la Cisjordanie, ont indiqué des responsables des services de sécurité palestiniens. Les soldats israéliens ont ouvert le feu sur un groupe de Palestiniens qui lançaient des pierres en direction d’un barrage routier militaire.

En réponse à un tir de roquette palestinien, l’armée israélienne avait effectué trois frappes mardi soir sur la bande de Gaza. Mercredi en début de matinée, deux roquettes ont été lancées de la bande de Gaza vers la ville israélienne de Sdérot, sans faire ni dégât ni blessé, a indiqué la police israélienne. Une coalition de groupes salafistes de Gaza s’est attribué la responsabilité de l’opération.

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Soldiers in the area opened fire at Amer Nassar , 17, killing him instantly in what Israel described as a response to a Palestinian firebombing targeting a military post.

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L’Egypte, aujourd’hui

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/health-ministry-reports-223-injured-wednesday-clashes

Clashes Over Land Batter Police in Myanmar - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/world/asia/dozens-of-police-officers-in-myanmar-hurt-in-clashes-over-land.html?nl=toda

BANGKOK — When angry villagers clashed with security forces on Tuesday over land seizures in Myanmar, the police apparently got the worst of it.

Officials and a doctor at a hospital said on Wednesday that one officer had been killed and that dozens had been wounded; most of those whose injuries were severe were police officers.

#birmanie

A Monologue of Blood and Bullets Precedes Yemen’s National Dialogue
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/26/a-monologue-of-blood-and-bullets-preceeds-yemens-national-dialog

Syria’s second largest Palestinian refugee camp, Khan al-Sheeh, has slowly been turned into a war zone, much like the Yarmouk camp before it. Over the past three weeks, large sections of the camp have been overrun by fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

At first camp residents responded with peaceful protests, but then turned to armed resistance when the FSA ignored their demands that the camp remain neutral in their battle against the regime.

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syria-resistance-mounts-against-fsa-palestinian-camp

Big Data, Better Global Health - Council on Foreign Relations

cc @fil @simplicissimus

http://www.cfr.org/global-health/big-data-better-global-health/p30042?cid=nlc-public-the_world_this_week-link14-20130222

Big Data, Better Global Health

Author: Thomas Bollyky, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development
February 21, 2013

Bill Gates, Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), and other experts and leaders gathered this month in Geneva for a very important meeting on a very unimportant-sounding subject: global disease estimates.

The impetus was the release of the Global Burden Disease (GBD) Study, the most comprehensive and ambitious effort to date to quantify the world’s health status. Led by Chris Murray and his colleagues at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the GBD study involved 486 collaborators from 302 institutions in 50 countries. In a field in which donors and policymakers have lacked basic health data, such as birth and death registries, for many countries, the GBD study assesses 291 diseases and injuries and 67 risk factors in 187 countries over a 20-year period (1990-2010).

#santé #big-data #statistiques

If Right-Wing Violence Is Up 400%, Why Is the FBI Targeting Environmentalists?
http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/right-wing-violence-increase-west-point-study/6704

The FBI has directed public attention elsewhere: in its chronological listing of terrorist incidents in the United States, the FBI says that in the three years after 9/11, every act of domestic terrorism, except for one, was the work of animal rights and environmental activists, including groups like the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front.

In that period, right wing violence resulted in 283 injuries and 71 deaths.

In contrast, the crimes by animal rights and environmental activists physically harmed no one.

Data Visualizations | Health Metrics and Evaluation
http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/tools/data-visualizations

IHME strives to make its data freely and easily accessible and to provide innovative ways to visualize complex topics. Our data visualizations allow you to see patterns and follow trends that are not readily apparent in the numbers themselves. Here you can watch how trends in mortality change over time, choose countries to compare progress in a variety of health areas, or see how countries compare against each other on a global map.

#data #santé #visualisation #chiffres repérés par l’efficace @karenbastien qui malheureusement s’accroche à son scoop.it au lieu de venir ici :)

GBD 2010 patterns by broad cause group
http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/visualizations/gbd-2010-patterns-broad-cause-group

What diseases and injuries cause the most death and disability globally?
Compare how a given set of 21 cause groups affects specific age groups or regions in terms of death and disability. You can change age group or region, year, and metric to view results for absolute numbers, rates, and percentages. You also have the option to further explore each cause group and view specific diseases, injuries, or risk factors.

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[Protection Palestine]- Des centaines à protester contre la visite de Clinton à Ramallah
http://www.protection-palestine.org/spip.php?article12139

Des centaines de jeunes Palestiniens ont protesté massivement contre la venue de la secrétaire d’État U.S., Hillary Clilnton, dans la ville cisjordanienne de Ramallah, et sa rencontre avec le Président palestinien, Mahmoud Abbas, a rapporté PNN (Réseau d’informations de Palestine).

Les manifestants brandissaient des photos d’enfants martyrisés par les missiles israéliens à Gaza, tandis qu’un certain nombre de manifestants brûlaient des drapeaux américains et scandaient des slogans contre les États-Unis pour leur soutien à Israël malgré ses crimes contre le peuple palestinien.

La manifestation a eu lieu près du siège présidentiel à Ramallah ; des militants des réseaux sociaux avaient appelé à manifester en Cisjordanie.

Un des manifestants a déclaré à PNN que cette manifestation avait lieu « à cause du soutien aveugle américain à Israël malgré ses crimes contre les civils, les enfants et les bébés, à Gaza », et il a ajouté que « les États-Unis étaient le pays qui empêchait la création d’un État palestinien indépendant ».

Il est à noter que les forces de sécurité palestiniennes se sont opposées à ce que les manifestants s’approchent des bureaux présidentiels, et les ont tenus à au moins 400 mètres de distance.

Après la rencontre Abbas-Clinton, un membre du Comité exécutif de l’OLP (Organisation pour la libération de la Palestine), le Dr Saeb Erekat, a déclaré qu’Abbas avait mis l’accent sur l’importance d’arrêter l’escalade.

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Gaza live report: Day 8
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=540391

20:09 Palestinian killed, another injured in Israeli airstrike on Deir al-Balah shortly after ceasefire announced in Cairo.

19:59 Israel launches airstrikes across Gaza after ceasefire announcement.

Importante étude de Phan Nguyen : Israël gonfle systématiquement le nombre de ses morts et de ses blessés, et quand ces nombres sont encore trop bas, ajoute des « traumatismes psychiques » : Dissecting IDF Propaganda : The Numbers Behind the Rocket Attacks
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/8461/dissecting-idf-propaganda_the-numbers-behind-the-r

Dissecting IDF propaganda: The numbers behind the rocket attacks | Mondoweiss

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#Gaza #Israel #fatalities #propagande

Photos: With Gaza under attack, children pay the price | +972 Magazine

http://972mag.com/photos-with-gaza-under-attack-children-pay-the-price/59860

#Gaza #Israel

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photos injured Palestinians arrive to Shifa hospital after the israeli attack on #gaza http://flic.kr/p/dtktrH

Palestinian Center for Human Rights
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8970:new-israeli-escalation-a

New Israeli Escalation against the Gaza Strip, 7 Palestinians, Including 3 Children, Killed and 52 Others, Including 6 Women and 12 Children, Wounded

Over the past 72 hours, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aerial and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip. Five Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, have been killed, and 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded. Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shoja’iya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Additionally, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed, and some civilian facilities were destroyed or damaged.

According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 15:30 on Saturday, 10 November 2012, Israeli military vehicles stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired an artillery shell at a number of Palestinian children who were playing football at al-Mentar Hill east of al-Shoja’iya neighborhood, which is east of Gaza City and nearly 1,500 meters away from the border. As a result, 2 children were instantly killed:

1- Mohammed Ussama Hassan Harara (16); and

2- Ahmed Mustafa Khaled Harara (17).

Following this attack, a number of Palestinian civilians, who were in the consolation house of the Harara family, rushed to the area, where the IOF immediately fired another 3 shells. As a result, 2 Palestinian civilians were instantly killed:

1- Ahmed Kamel Al- Dirdissawi (18); and

2- Matar ‘Emad ‘Abdul Rahman Abu al-‘Ata (19).

Additionally, 38 civilians, including 8 children, were wounded; the wounding of 10 of these civilians was described by medical crews as being serious.

Earlier, on Thursday evening, 08 November 2012, the IOF killed a Palestinian child during an incursion in the ‘Abassan village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 16:30 on Thursday, as a result of the indiscriminate shooting by IOF military vehicles that had moved into the ‘Abassan village, 13-year-old Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa was seriously wounded by a bullet to the abdomen. At the time he was shot, Ahmed had been playing football with his friends in front of his family’s house, located nearly 1,200 meters away from the area where the IOF were present. He was evacuated to the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis, but he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later.

On Saturday and Sunday, 10 and 11 November 2012, Israeli warplanes targeted a number of members of the Palestinian resistance. As a result, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed in 2 separate attacks in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They were identified as:

1- Mohammed Fu’ad ‘Obaid (22), from Jabalya; and

2- Mohammed Sa’id Shkoukani (18).

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L’émission hebdomadaire francophone de Gaza.

Bonjour de Gaza

11 November 2012 at 4h57

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1#/recorded/26908589

Une nouvelle preuve, s’il en est besoin, de l’impunité israélienne :

« New Israeli Escalation against the Gaza Strip, 7 Palestinians, Including 3 Children, Killed and 52 Others, Including 6 Women and 12 Children, Wounded » (Palestinian Center for Human Rights, [PCHR], 11 novembre)
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8969:new-israeli-escalation-a

Over the past 72 hours, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aerial and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip. Five Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, have been killed, and 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded . Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shoja’iya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Additionally, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed, and some civilian facilities were destroyed or damaged. (...)

Moreover, the IOF have launched several attacks against Palestinian civilian property , as follows:

At approximately 17:00 on Saturday, 10 November 2012, the IOF, positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Khan Yunis, fired 2 artillery shells at the water tank of the Khuza’a Municipality, nearly 800 meters away from the border. Shrapnel from the shells hit 11 Palestinian civilians, including 5 women and 2 children, while they were inside their houses or in nearby streets.

At the same time, the IOF, positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, fired an artillery shell at the office of the Gaza Electricity Distribution Company in al-Sha’af neighborhood east of Gaza City. The office was heavily damaged, but no casualties were reported. (...)

Overnight, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a brick factory belonging to the Hassanain family in al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City. The factory was totally destroyed. (...)

Etc, etc. On le voit : que des cibles « stratégiques »...

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#Palestine #Gaza #Israël #PCHR

Gaza man dies of wounds from Israeli airstrike | Maan News Agency
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GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A 24-year-old Palestinian died Thursday from injuries sustained in an Israeli air strike a day earlier, Gaza’s health ministry said.

Mohammad Hirzallah had been injured when Israeli warplanes bombed Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning. He died in hospital Thursday, the ministry said in a statement.

Gaza : deux Palestiniens tués et deux blessés dans un nouveau raid israélien
http://www.romandie.com/news/n/_Gaza_deux_Palestiniens_tues_et_deux_blesses_dans_un_nouveau_raid_israelie

GAZA (Territoires palestiniens) - Deux Palestiniens ont été tués et deux autres grièvement blessés dimanche après-midi lors d’un nouveau raid aérien israélien dans la bande de Gaza, selon des sources médicales palestiniennes.

Ce bilan porte à cinq le nombre de Palestiniens tués à Gaza lors d’attaques aériennes israéliennes depuis 24 heures, selon des sources médicales palestiniennes.

La dernière frappe a touché une zone à l’est de la ville de Deir el-Balah, dans le centre du territoire palestinien, selon des témoins. L’armée israélienne a affirmé avoir ciblé une unité terroriste qui venait de tirer une roquette contre le sud d’Israël.

Deux personnes ont été tuées. L’une d’entre elles qui était dans un état critique est décédée de ses blessures, a indiqué à l’AFP Ashraf al-Qudra, le porte-parole du ministère de la Santé du gouvernement du Hamas à Gaza. Un premier bilan avait fait état d’un seul mort.

Les victimes ont été identifiées comme Ezzedine Abou Nassira, 23 ans, et Ahmad Fatayer, 22 ans, tous deux originaires de Deir el-Balah.

Selon des témoins, il s’agissait d’activistes qui circulaient à moto.

Le porte-parole du ministère de la Santé a assuré que les deux jeunes hommes étaient des civils.

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http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=528905

Medics identified the victims as 23-year-old Izz Addin Abu Nuseira , and 22-year-old Ahmad Abu Fatayir who succumbed to his injuries upon arrival at hospital.

Israel’s army said it targeted a “terrorist squad” who had just fired a rocket from the central Gaza Strip at Israel, adding that a hit was confirmed.

The two victims brought Gaza’s death toll from Israeli airstrikes to 5 within 24 hours.

Yasser al-Atakal , 24, was killed in an airstrike on Sunday morning as he rode his motorbike east of Khan Younis, and another person was seriously wounded. An Israeli military spokesman said the men had been preparing to fire rockets into Israel.

On Saturday evening, Israel killed two top Salafi militants in a similar attack in the northern town of Jabalia.

The victims were identified as Hisham Al-Saedni and Ashraf al-Sabah , while a 10-year-old boy who was passing by the area was also wounded, a Ma’an correspondent said.

On Sunday, Gaza’s Ministry of Health slammed what it described as excessive violence against unarmed Palestinian civilians which deliberately targeted densely-populated areas with lethal weapons, a statement said.