Sentences with phrase «birth rates remained»

From another perspective, Bangladesh, the world's eighth most populous nation (with.0003 of the earth's land), has reduced its death rate to 17 per thousand (from 50 in 1900); its birth rate remains constant at 48 per 1,000.

But despite that, the birth rate remains extremely low at 1.4 births per woman and people aged 19 and under make up less than 1/5 of the population.

Not exact matches

The traditional Hindu caste system was the most perfect form of ascribed ranking: An individual's place in the social hierarchy was fixed at birth and, at least in principle, remained immutable throughout his life (at any rate, in this life» the Hindu idea that social mobility could occur in future incarnations is, alas, beyond the scope of sociology).

However, an important French element remained and multiplied by a high birth rate.

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

Though rates of premature birth remain steady in the U.S., at one in 8 live births, the demand for donor human milk is rising because of its effectiveness.

In spite of our vigilance, preterm births are on the rise, cerebral palsy - thought to be caused by fetal distress - rates have remained stagnant, and in 2002, infant mortality rose for the first time since 1958.

When the analysis was restricted to units or trusts with a response rate of at least 85 %, the higher odds of the primary outcome for nulliparous women in the planned home birth group remained, and the strength of this association increased (appendix 5 on bmj.com).

While the incidence of home birth remains below 1 % in the U.S. overall, the rate of home births among white, non-Hispanic women has been increasing, the authors noted.

The incidence of home birth remains below 1 % of all births in the U.S., although the rate of home birth has increased during the past several years for white, non-Hispanic women.

A study large enough to compare perinatal death rates accurately, if the annual rate of home births with regulated midwives in BC were to remain the same as it is today, would require 7 — 8 years of data collection.

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

In New York City, sleep - related injuries remained one of the leading causes of death among infants, with 40 deaths in 2014 and 48 deaths in 2015 at a combined rate of 36.1 per 100,000 live births for 2014 - 2015.

The 2012 preterm birth rate among non-Hispanic black infants remains the highest of all the racial groups at 16.5 percent, down from 18.5 percent in 2006 and the lowest in more than 20 years.

The authors write that the reasons for lower live birth rates with use of cryopreserved oocytes remain to be established.

In women younger than 40 years using their own oocytes (eggs), the live - birth rate for the first cycle was 32 percent and remained above 20 percent up to and including the fourth cycle.

While deaths from infectious diseases have been steadily declining as a result of research and medical intervention, preterm birth has remained a much more difficult problem, say the authors of a recent study that collated child mortality rates and their associated causes between 2000 and 2013.

Instead, birth rates in most African countries have remained stagnant or declined only slightly.

Live births declined by 10 percent between 1990 and 2010, while fetal loss rates remained relatively constant, according to data in the report.

He noted that, despite some improvements, «U.S. [teen birth] rates remain among the highest among industrialized countries.»

In successive birth cohorts there was a decline in moderate to high - intensity smoking, and the highest rate of moderate to high - intensity smoking was 9.7 % in California and 18.3 % in the remaining US for the 1970 - 1979 birth cohort.

Teen birth rates have declined in the past 10 years in Georgia and Oklahoma (as they have nationwide), but both states remain far above the national average.

Although spending per student has in fact gone up in Poland (largely because of declining birth rates and a declining student population), the growth in per - student spending remains well below the growth in education spending in other countries.

The global population peak will still largely be determined by changes in birth and death rates in developing countries that, for the moment, remain deeply impoverished.

While there have been dramatic changes in the lives of parents as welfare caseloads declined, more single mothers entered and remained in the labour force, and teen pregnancy and out - of - wedlock birth rates declined, the outcomes for children have changed very little.