Suicide Top Cause of Death for Chinese Women: WHO
Suicide is the (1) _________ cause of death among Chinese women between the ages of 20 and 34. ``Suicide has become a major public health problem,'' said the WHO statement, (2) __________ from the organisation's Western Pacific regional headquarters in Manila. It painted a (3) ____________ picture of (4) ____________ rising suicide rates and sweeping neglect of mental illness in most of the region, which includes 37 East Asian and Pacific countries.
One million people(5) ____________ suicide each year worldwide, the statement said. In the Western Pacific Region, 1,100 people(6) ____________ killed themselves(7) ___________ day. (8) __________ 1999, the WHO said China was the only country(9) ___________ more women than men killed themselves, and more women committed suicide in the countryside (10) _____________ in cities.
Many rural women(11) ___________ pesticides after family(12) __________ or other arguments, Zhang said, adding they often died because medical treatment in farming areas was not very(13) ___________. ``In (14)____________ China, the system of pesticide management is not very sound. It's easy to get these things,'' he said.
CHINA'S SUICIDE RATE DOWN (15) ___________ cases rising regionally and globally, China's overall suicide rate had(16) ___________ by 17% in the past 15 years, a separate WHO paper(17) __________ last week said. The WHO's annual world health report entitled ``Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope'' released on October 4 said the suicide rate in China was 14 per 100,000 people. But the WHO report(18) _____________ that the aggregate figures glossed over differences and trends across population
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``Aggregate figures can hide major(20) ____________ between, for example, rural and urban areas,'' it said, noting China as a case in point. Demographic trends vary grossly across China's regions and population groups.
STEPS TO HELP WOMEN Separately, the government took (21) ____________ earlier this week to (22) _____________ women's health and root out gender(23) _____________ woven into China's cultural fabric for centuries. The Beijing Youth Daily reported on Wednesday that the State Drug Administration banned the sale of (24) _____________ pills at pharmacies and said Beijing(25) ___________ had already stopped selling the drugs.
Since China (26) ___________ its one-child policy (27) ___________ the end of the 1970s, many women have chosen to (28) _____________ female babies--some by using abortion pills--in hopes of trying later for a boy. Male children are (29) ______________ given higher value than girls.
The newspaper quoted specialists as saying unregulated use of the abortion drug could(30) ___________ to incomplete abortions, major blood (31) ___________, infections and(32) ____________. At a conference on women and children on Tuesday in Beijing, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji called for(33) _____________ in education for women and children and (34) _____________ participation of women in politics, the China Daily said.
A 10-year nationwide project promising women and children wealthier, healthier and better-educated lives by 2010 was also (35) _____________ on Tuesday, state media reported.
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