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The Major Health Issues in South Africa
What are the major health issues in South Africa?
South Africa faces a quadruple burden of disease resulting from communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS and TB; maternal and child mortality; NCDs such as hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, mental illnesses and chronic lung diseases like asthma; as well as injury and trauma.
What is the biggest health problem in South Africa?
The following tables contains the biggest health issues in South Africa
| Cause of death | Rank | Number | Percentage |
| Tuberculosis | 1 | 29 513 | 6.5% |
| Diabetes mellitus | 2 | 25 255 | 5.5% |
| Other forms of heart disease | 3 | 23 515 | 5.1% |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 4 | 23 137 | 5.1% |
| Human immunodeficiency virus | 5 | 21 830 | 4.8% |
| Hypertensive disease | 6 | 19 960 | 4.4% |
| Influenza and pneumonia | 7 | 19 638 | 4.3% |
| Other viral diseases | 8 | 16 577 | 3.6% |
| Ischaemic heart disease | 9 | 12 883 | 2.8% |
| Chronic lower respiratory disease | 10 | 12 659 | 2.8% |
| Other natural causes | 200 403 | 43.9% | |
| Non-natural causes | 51 242 | 11.2% | |
| All causes | 456 612 | 100.0% |
What are the top 10 causes of death in South Africa?
The top ten leading underlying natural causes of death in 2018 were: tuberculosis; diabetes mellitus; cerebrovascular diseases; other forms of heart disease; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease; hypertensive diseases; influenza and pneumonia; Ischaemic heart diseases; chronic lower respiratory diseases.
