Sentences with phrase «child mortality by»

The Campaign was especially concerned that the target to halve the gap in child mortality by 2018 is not on track and that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child mortality did not improve significantly over the period 2008 - 2015.

«The NACCHO Healthy for Life Report Card for 2013 clearly shows our services were able to reduce child mortality by 66 per cent, and overall Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mortality by 33 per cent.

These numbers fall short of the Millennium Development Goals for reducing maternal and child mortality by 2015 that world leaders committed to back in September of 2000.

Although South Africa was never likely to meet the arbitrarily defined goal of reducing under - five child mortality by two thirds, the country is nevertheless back to the child mortality level it had before the HIV epidemic, which objectively should be considered a huge success.»

As per Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India [BPNI] and UNICEF training manual, Breastfeeding, if done in a right way, could bring down child mortality by up to 13 %.

As policy makers seek to fulfill the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two thirds by 2015, effective and comprehensive restrictions on marketing practices in order to protect and support breastfeeding are imperative.

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

Randomized - controlled trial, which found that Living Goods» program reduced child mortality by a very large amount.

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It accomplishes this by building healthy, sustainable communities through local engagement and partnerships and by focusing on the leading causes of mortality for mothers and children in targeted communities throughout Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

According to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality, a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to face a firearm homicide.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

Similarly, a study using data from 219 countries found that, for every additional year of education for women, the child mortality rate decreased by 9.5 percent.

The insistence by supporters of abortion on demand that only «wanted children» be allowed to be born has not improved our infant mortality rates, which have remained among the worst in the industrialized world; nor has it helped us cope effectively with the incidence of child abuse, the frequency and severity of which have increased dramatically during this time.

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In the last two decades, child mortality has decreased by about 40 %, but still almost 7 million children under five die each year, mainly from preventable diseases.

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Recent evidence suggests that mortality could be further reduced by treating high - risk children also with azithromycin antibiotic.

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.

«Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 mo of life followed by optimal complementary feeding are critical public health measures for reducing and preventing morbidity and mortality in young children.»

The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).

As a registered nurse and the injury prevention coordinator for Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Winkler teaches safe sleep practices in East St. Louis, an area plagued by a higher than average infant mortality.

Summary: These guiding principles were prepared to help prevent increased morbidity and mortality among infants and young children affected by an emergency...

Studies in developing countries demonstrate that continued, frequent breastfeeding is associated with greater linear growth and further protects child health by delaying maternal fertility postpartum and reducing the child's risk of morbidity and mortality.

Importance Childhood cancer is a leading cause of mortality among children and adolescents in the developed world and the incidence increases by 0.9 % each year.

Childhood cancer is a leading cause of mortality among children and adolescents in the developed world and the incidence increases by 0.9 % each year.

International Baby Food Action Network IBFAN works globally to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality by the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices.

According to Save the Children's report, infant mortality in Bangladesh alone could be cut by almost a third - saving the lives of 314 children every day - if breastfeeding rates were iChildren's report, infant mortality in Bangladesh alone could be cut by almost a third - saving the lives of 314 children every day - if breastfeeding rates were ichildren every day - if breastfeeding rates were improved.

Given that world leaders are committed to cutting infant mortality by two thirds by 2015 as one of the Millennium Development Goals, protecting and promoting breastfeeding is almost certainly the biggest single thing that could be done to better child survival rates.

Mrs. Alarbi said studies showed that for babies born to HIV - infected mothers, the use of niverapine drug combined with baby formulas to prevent mother - to - child transmission, could reduce child mortality to only two per cent of under - five mortality and morbidity while the use of insecticide - treated bed nets could reduce it by six per cent.

«Primarily because of grand corruption under successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»

«By extension, it is to reduce the disease burden and mortality rate of children who are less than the age of five years», he said.

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.

A recent study in Environmental Health showed that access to clean water could reduce childhood mortality by 1.17 deaths per 1,000 children, which is a large number of preventable deaths for the millions of children who lack access to improved water — and millions more who apparently lack access to fully safe water supplies.

Historically, grandmothers have been important to their grandchildren, and the help provided by grandmothers has increased grandchild survival during the times of high child mortality.

The report calls for increased funding to augment USAID's investments in ending preventable maternal and child mortality to include priority interventions supported by rigorous monitoring and evaluation.

««By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.»

In particular, child mortality was shown to be lower when the measles vaccine came after the third diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) vaccination, as recommend by the WHO, compared to before DTP or given together with DTP.

Britain has a child mortality rate of 1630 deaths per one million children, according to the study, which was led by Professor Colin Pritchard of Bournemouth University.

In the European Union, children younger than 14 years account for a higher proportion of pedestrian mortalities than any other age group except the elderly; in the U.S., among children killed by cars, nearly a quarter were on foot.

A first - of - its - kind study led by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), published online in the journal, Circulation, found that infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) born far from a hospital providing neonatal cardiac surgery for HLHS have increased neonatal mortality, with most deaths occurring before surgery.

However, if the promises of findings reported in the studies by Mahajan and colleagues and Herberg and colleagues are fulfilled by replication and refinement in other rigorous investigations, it may be possible that such advances will further reduce morbidity, mortality, and costs associated with caring for febrile children.

Previous studies by other researchers have shown that increasing the use of nanotechnology in agriculture in densely populated countries such as India and China has made an impact on reducing malnutrition and child mortality.

«They live out in the communities themselves,» she said, adding that this is a pivotal factor that has helped to drive down child mortality in Ethiopia by 25 per cent since 2003.

The case of South Africa, which failed to meet the MDG4 child mortality goal due to the simultaneous onset of the HIV epidemic, suggests that success is partly determined by how the goal was formulated.

Death rates for each major category of childhood cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third of 1 percent of cancer deaths occur in children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination of childhood cancer deaths would have little impact on overall cancer mortality.

In Sierra Leone, mortality is projected to increase by 20 percent for pregnant women and children under five.

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By 2015, the leaders pledged, the world would achieve measurable improvements in the most critical areas of human development: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, global partnership for development.

«By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.

Gerhold and Jessup argue that the feeding stations commonly used by colony caregivers attract raccoons, which «harbour an intestinal nematode parasite, Baylisascaris procyonis (i.e., raccoon roundworm), that has caused morbidity and mortality in humans, especially children.»