Sentences with phrase «as premature mortality»

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The U.S. has considered many factors, such as advanced maternal age, more reproductive technology, and higher rates of premature births for its high mortality rate, but the rate is simply much too high.

For eight years she has been a committed member of the DC Infant Mortality Review Committee and served as a key advisor for the Committee's Stronger Together campaign, an initiative aimed at reducing infant mortality and prematuMortality Review Committee and served as a key advisor for the Committee's Stronger Together campaign, an initiative aimed at reducing infant mortality and prematumortality and premature birth.

Agriculture is the leading source of outdoor pollution — related premature mortality in the eastern United States, Europe, and in countries such as Russia, Japan, and Turkey, the researchers found.

The majority of evidence fell into three categories: biological indicators or biomarkers, such as leukocyte telomere length (LTL), earlier occurrence or higher prevalence of medical conditions associated with advanced age and premature mortality.

It's well known that smoking while pregnant carries numerous serious health risks for the unborn baby which includes premature birth, low birth weight, fetal mortality as well as various serious birth defects like heart problems, club foot and cleft palate.

For those age 50 - 65, eating a moderate or high protein diet increased both cancer mortality as well as all - cause mortality (premature death from any cause).

As a consequence, days with temperatures exceeding 90 °F were responsible for about 600 premature fatalities annually in the 1960 - 2004 period, compared to the approximately 3,600 premature fatalities that would have occurred if the temperature - mortality relationship from before 1960 still prevailed.

This program reduced the high mortality rate of inner - city infants from summer diarrhea when previous efforts of private agencies had failed.5 In the late 20th century, as funding for public health nurses has declined relative to the need, home - visitation programs have focused on families with special problems such as premature or low - birth - weight infants, children with developmental delay, teenage parents, and families at risk for child abuse or neglect.6

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11