what s interesting about their latest report on 2013 is that there were huge variations among different countries when you look at causes of death. for example, three persian gulf states, the uae, saudi arabia, and oman, had very high injury road injury get death rates. these countries could learn some lessons from sweden, which had just a quarter of the global average for road injury deaths. half of all suicides in the world took place in india or china. but since 1990, suicides have risen in india while they have gone down in china. in the u.s., maternal mortality rates have been on the rise and are much higher than in other developed countries. the study author reportedly said that less access to health care might be a reason. so what should we do with this data? well, by making comparisons to places that do better, countries, states, and cities can adopt best practices.
and covering 188 countries. for comparison, the u.n. has 193 member states. the project is chronicled in a book that came out recently called epic measures: one doctor, 7 billion patients by jeremy n. smith. dr. christopher murray, the public health guru behind the project, realized that to fight disease and death around the world more effectively, health care officials needed to know exactly what was killing and hurting the humans on planet earth. so he and his team are grabbing every bit of data they can get their hands on, a case of moneyball meets medicine, as smith notes. what s interesting about their latest report on 2013 is that there were huge variations among different countries when you look at causes of death. for example, three persian gulf states, the uae, saudi arabia, and oman, had very high road injury death rates.
the supreme leader there, ayatollah khomeini over weekend, says the united states was bullying the iranians and they were not about to give in. a toned down version of that from president rouhani. he said progress was made and a deal was still possible but it will take more from the position of the united states and secretary kerry s opposite number in the talks foreign minister zarif. he said back off on the pressure if you want to get a deal done. you know when they sit down and start talking thursday it is not going to be easy. it may be made harder by the revelations of what israel learned. nic robertson in london thanks. if u.s. officials declaring yemen on the brink of civil war, the elected government of the president there is calling on other persian gulf nations to
declaring yemen on the brink of the civil war. the president is calling on other persian gulf states to prevent houthis from advancing. this as we learn britain has also pulled the last of its forces out of yemen. the u.s. evacuated troops over the weekend. security experts say the developments are crippleing efforts in the region that yemen could be a fertile ground of terror. a disaster in yemen. we are learning new details about the 11 medical students suspected of traveling to syria to work in isis controlled hospitals. that includes seven britains and american and canadian. british lawmaker believes they were quote brainwashed. the students families say they
i think there s support for israel to defend itself and support will grow because today as reporters said, israel agreed to a ceasefire. the prime minister acted with leadership and responsibility. he brought it to a vote in the cabinet. there was a contentious meeting but he agreed to the egyptian proposal for a ceasefire at 9:00. israel waited hours for hamas to agree and in those hours they were firing dozens of rockets at israel and israel said we have to protect the civilians and now engaged once again in this confrontation. what were the exchanges like at the dinner at the white house last night? you had all of the ambassadors of arab nations, persian gulf states, as well. did you find any open hostility? were there any conversations along the margins about this when they re off air, people can be very friendly, very open. obviously, the political issue is something that concerns all those people who were there but there were no problems