Sentences with phrase «avoidable mortality»

Avoidable death rates among the Maori, for example, are estimated to be almost double those of Europeans or other New Zealanders.3 Many indigenous people have one or more of a complex set of interlocking chronic diseases from a comparatively early age.9 Although these diseases are diagnosable and treatable, at least some of this avoidable mortality remains underdiagnosed and undertreated.

I view that situation will not be critical, in an existential sense, until the excess mortalities reach around 120 - 150 million deaths per annum (4 - 5 per second), i.e. not until it is likely that the population would be declining after we have fixed most other causes of avoidable mortality.

«Social spending as a share of health spending is associated with improvements in potentially avoidable mortality and life expectancy,» says Dr. Dutton.

«If governments spent one cent more on social services per dollar spent on health by rearranging money between the two portfolios, life expectancy could have experienced an additional 5 % increase and potentially avoidable mortality could have experienced an additional 3 % decrease in one year.»

The researchers looked at three health outcomes: potentially avoidable mortality, infant mortality, and life expectancy.

«We have government telling doctors that one of their key responsibilities is to cut avoidable mortality and yet they are stepping away from giving them the key tool that will make a difference, which I think is outrageous.

Not exact matches

Researchers reported high overall perinatal mortality in a study of home birth in Australia, 35 qualifying that low risk home births in Australia had good outcomes but that high risk births gave rise to a high rate of avoidable death at home.36 Two prospective studies in North America found positive outcomes for home birth, 23 24 but the studies were not of sufficient size to provide relatively stable perinatal death rates.

Clearly we have access to some data and clearly having Pfizer participate in some of these broad industry coalitions like this most recent one, clearly there are a good amount of data and modeling about the valued impact of early diagnosis, early treatment as well as again well documented preventive measures like heartworm check, which I think is very clearly an opportunity to say the better we can assess that, we can clearly avert mortality and morbidity that is clearly avoidable.

Aboriginal health is clearly much lower than it could be, but the problem is one of adult mortality, in addition to avoidable deaths among young children.