Fatal Accidents as a Global Health Crisis

"Worried about what to worry about? Accidents should move higher up your list. Worldwide, road injuries kill more people than AIDS. Falls kill nearly three times as many people as brain cancer. Drowning claims more lives than mothers dying in childbirth. Both fire and poisonings have many times more fatal victims than natural disasters. In 2013, the combined death toll from all unintentional injuries was 3.5 million people. Only heart disease and stroke were greater killers."
-- Jeremy N. Smith, "Fatal Accidents as a Global Health Crisis," New York Times
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