Global Health Metrics Conference: How To Improve Global Health And Prevent Avoidable Mortality

Published: April 8, 2011, 5 p.m.

b'SEATTLE\\u2014The world is becoming a healthier place \\u2014 thanks to improved health systems and effective health policies, according to Professor Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. On his return from the Global Health Metrics and Evaluation Conference held in Seattle \\u2014 simultaneously published in the medical journal The Lancet \\u2014 he talked with Audio News about some of the interesting research findings discussed, and about identifying amenable areas for improving health and avoiding preventable deaths\\u2014 especially in low and middle income countries and less accessible regions.'