Sentences with phrase «early infant mortality»

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A little earlier than I was referring but I think they just steadily improved practices of infant feeding over time because there was significant mortality associated with «artificial feeding,» though it was less the milk itself (my husband says they traditional gave goats milk to babies whose mothers couldn't feed them), than the practices associated with delivering non-human milk to infants (e.g., dirty bottle teats, spoiled milk).

Other benefits of this early breastfeeding experience include helping the infant feel more secure, reducing infant mortality through the numerous immunological properties of human milk, and encouraging a longer period of breastfeeding.

Introduced in Finland in the early 1900's, baby bassinet boxes became a part of a concerted effort to reduce infant mortality.

To reduce infant mortality and ill health, WHO recommends that mothers begin breastfeeding their infants within one hour of birth — referred to as «early initiation of breastfeeding».

Although SIDS rates have declined by more than 50 % since the early 1990s, SIDS remains the third - leading cause of infant mortality and the leading cause of postneonatal mortality (28 days to 1 year of age).

«WABA believes that programmes related to food and nutrition, health care and development and, especially programmes on infant and young child feeding, should be free from commercial influence and conflicts of interest» advocates Dato Anwar Fazal, WABA Executive Director; «this is especially since optimal breastfeeding, including early, exclusive breastfeeding for six months, and continued adequate breastfeeding for up to two years or longer constitute the primary intervention to prevent child mortality worldwide.»

This is the first epidemiologic evidence of such a causal association between early breastfeeding and infection specific mortality in the newborn infants.

Effect of early infant feeding practices on infection - specific neonatal mortality: an investigation of the causal links with observational data from rural Ghana Karen M Edmond, Betty R Kirkwood, Seeba Amenga - Etego, Seth Owusu - Agyei, and Lisa S Hurt Beginning Breastfeeding From First Day of Life Reduces Infection Related Deaths in Newborns by 2.6 times.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating hereditary disease that is a leading cause of infant and early childhood mortality.

In earlier times, infant mortality rates were staggering, leading parents to distance themselves emotionally from babies who might perish from malnutrition or infection before learning to walk.

This disease affects infants early in life and has a high mortality rate (2, 3).

Tom Vitaglione, a senior fellow with the child advocacy group N.C. Child, said the state had been making progress in reducing infant mortality, building up early education programs and increasing high school graduation rates.

Children who experience poverty, particularly during early life or for an extended period, are at risk of a host of adverse health and developmental outcomes through their life course.1 Poverty has a profound effect on specific circumstances, such as birth weight, infant mortality, language development, chronic illness, environmental exposure, nutrition, and injury.

Describing the many ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience deep trauma, in a list «that would surely make the blood of any decent human being run cold,» Parker said Indigenous people continued to die more than a decade earlier than their peers, suffer double the burden of ill health and infant mortality, with unemployment four times higher and median incomes half, and disability for one in three.

Early results from a study evaluating the program's impact on birth weight and infant mortality are encouraging.

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After controlling for age, race and education, infants with unwed mothers still have a higher mortality rate, even through early childhood years.

Other areas of concern discussed include: the state's infant mortality rate, lack of widespread early screening and intervention for developmental delays, and a growing number of young children in the child welfare system.

When a mom receives good support during birth and early postpartum, she's more likely to attach well to her baby — and this decreases the risk of infant mortality and early child abuse and neglect.

Since infant mortality is extremely high in parts of the world like this, Compassion has made it their mission to promote effective child development to ensure that children survive the early years, when they're most vulnerable to disease and malnutrition.