3 Towards the homogenisation of global death

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At the end of the last section we suggested the causes of death were becoming more similar across the world. In this section we look more carefully at this, considering particular examples and exploring the ‘causes of the causes’.

2.8 ‘Western diseases’ and other unhelpful simplifications

3.1 Income, poverty and death