Sentences with phrase «child mortality due»

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

WHO Collaborative Study Team on the Role of Breastfeeding on the Prevention of Infant Mortality 2000, Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis.

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Global diarrhoea mortality has been dramatically reduced among under - five - year - old children, due to wide spread use of oral rehydration and zinc treatment.

Child mortality can increase significantly due to diarrhoea, respiratory illness and malnutrition.

Children are the most vulnerable in emergencies — child mortality can soar from 2 to 70 times higher than average due to diarrhoea, respiratory illness and malnutrition.

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.

For those children where treatments have failed, prolonged disease activity has been shown to be associated with increased mortality and complications, such as scarring, pain due to trapped nerves, and shortening of the muscles causing joints to stay bent.

Prepregnancy care in diabetic women of child - bearing age is still unsatisfying, due to consistently increasing rates of serious perinatal complications, including excess malformation rates and higher mortality (Table 3)(341).

Ms. Johnson, an epidemiologist with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said the climbing mortality rate for all children may be due, in part, to improved diagnosis and better reporting of the disease over the past decade.

They left out increasing efficiency, new technologies for the environment, improved crop yield, demographics due to reduced child mortality.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.

(i) premature birth, low - birth weight infants, and infant mortality, including infant death due to neglect, or other indicators of at - risk prenatal, maternal, newborn, or child health;

Mothers are a logical focus for the study of parent problems and adult — offspring depressive symptoms due to gender differences in mortality rates as well as the distinctive nature of the mother — child relationship.