According to “2019 World Health Statistics” published on the WHO website on Thursday, the trend is similar in low and high-income countries as men often seek health care services less than women.
“Women outlive men everywhere in the world particularly in wealthy countries and the World Health Statistics 2019 disaggregated by sex for the first time explains why. “Where women can access health services, maternal deaths decrease thereby lengthening women’s life expectancy.“In many circumstances, men access health care less than women. The report also highlights the difference in causes of death between men and women.
According to the report, global suicide mortality rates are 75 per cent higher in men than in women in 2016. He said that the task of the organisation was therefore to use the data to make evidence-based policy decisions that would move everyone closer to a healthier, safer and fairer world.