Sentences with phrase «child mortality»

Water - borne disease is a key cause of high child mortality rates in many developing countries.

Child mortality in the city is twice the national average.

It is safe and contains antibodies that help protect infants from common childhood illnesses — such as diarrhea and pneumonia, the two primary causes of child mortality worldwide.

If vitamin A is adequate, we can prevent blindness and, most importantly, we can reduce overall child mortality by 23 - 34 %.

The goals called for a two - thirds reduction in child mortality from 1990 levels and a three - quarters reduction in maternal mortality from 1990 levels.

3rd world microbiome may have diversity, but also has significant child mortality due to digestive disease.

Over the past few decades, child mortality for children under 5 years old has been reduced by more than half.

More generous leave policies appeared to reduce infant and young child mortality.

But the tree also shows a reduction in child mortality during the 20th century, likely reflective of medical advances.

The decline in African child mortality is speeding up.

In our goals and evaluations, we must stress child health, not just child mortality.

She and her colleagues have studied child mortality rates and their causes between 2000 and 2013.

In 23 countries child mortality has either remained unchanged or risen.

[54] It also impacts on low birth rate and infant child mortality.

But not all causes are equally popular: some, like the environment, can provide a big boost to sales, while others, like reducing child mortality, don't resonate.

You can see this clearly in the life expectancy of people 65 years and older (this removes the effect of child mortality and wars etc., concentrating on chronic disease).

There was also a sharp decline in child mortality from all causes.

States with the lowest child mortality rate per 100,000 per year were Massachusetts (0.25); New York (0.29); New Jersey (0.32); Washington and Rhode Island (0.33); Connecticut (0.34); New Hampshire (0.48); and Alaska (0.50).

Exclusive breastfeeding — defined as the practice of only giving an infant breast - milk for the first 6 months of life (no other food or water)-- has the single largest potential impact on child mortality of any preventive intervention.

So a 20 percent increase in the rule of law, for example, would increase a nation's GDP by $ 16,644, decrease its homicide rate by two per 100,000 population, decrease child mortality rates by 14.1 per 1,000, and add 5.2 years to average life expectancy.

This year it is expected that two more targets will be marked as on track — the goal to halve the gap in Indigenous child mortality rates and to improve early childhood education attendance.

The report explored the potential of biotechnology solutions to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of development goals (such as halving child mortality) for all developing countries to reach by 2015.

«Zinc deficiency causes increased child mortality due to infectious diseases, because it prevents the immune system from working properly.

Her fellow Co-Chair, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda said it is heartening to see rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child mortality are decreasing at over three times the rate experienced by other Australians.

«Economic growth is also significantly associated with child mortality reductions, but the magnitude of the association is much smaller than that of increased education,» comments Emmanuela Gakidou, IHME's director of education and training.

Therefore, a variety of options are needed to help people get enough vitamin A. Providing adequate amounts of vitamin A, on the other hand, reduces overall child mortality by 23 - 34 %.

Unintentional injuries at home are one of the leading causes of child mortality globally.

«Our new study adds to growing evidence that, when administered in the recommended sequence, measles vaccination helps to reduce child mortality through non-specific effects as well.»

New research suggests that men raised in countries with higher average lifespans and lower child mortality more strongly prefer women with softer features than do men raised in less healthy nations.

How did child mortality change?

It is safe and contains antibodies that help protect infants from common childhood illnesses such as diarrhoea and pneumonia, the two primary causes of child mortality worldwide.

If we can provide access to contraceptives, moms can go back to work to combat extreme poverty; kids can stay in school; families can feed their children; and we can improve maternal and child mortality outcomes.

Drawing conclusions from national child mortality data is difficult because it requires access to detailed, consistent and reliable data for the entire MDG period from 1990 - 2015.

I've seen fascinating efforts lately to use new software and graphics tools to visualize sets of data ranging from flights over the United States in a 24 - hour period to patterns of obesity onset and weight loss in the Framingham heart study to work charting relationships between child mortality, income and fertility rates.

More striking, the average fall is faster than it was in China in the early 1980s, when child mortality was declining around 3 % a year, admittedly from a lower base.

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Child mortality statistics: childhood, infant and perinatal, 2011 2 Perinatal Mortality Report 2009, Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries 201

At current trends, 60 million children will die before their fifth birthday between 2017 and 2030, half of them newborns, according to the report released by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank and the Population Division of UNDESA which make up the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.

Chapman compared child mortality during the first five years of life, depending on sex and whether the child's paternal or maternal grandmother was present.

It examines child mortality rates in the context of each nation's relative poverty index (the gap between the income of the richest 20 per cent of the population and that of the poorest 20 per cent).