Sentences with phrase «child mortality rates»

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

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

Worldwide, child mortality rates decreased 53 percent between 1990 and 2015, according to the U.N.

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).

But a lack of vaccines is a key reason high child mortality rates persist in many resource - poor countries of Asia and Africa.

States with the highest child mortality rates per 100,000 per year were Mississippi (3.23); Wyoming (3.06); Alabama (2.71); Montana (2.23); West Virginia (2.16); Oklahoma (2.02).

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 brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so - called developed and developing countries.

Because the study design leaves open the possibility of confounding variables that were not measured, the results can not be definitively interpreted as causal evidence that PMI reduced child mortality rates.

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).

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.

The study is the first ever national analysis of child mortality in China at a county (sub-province) level, and reveals that the differences in child mortality rates between counties can be just as dramatic as those seen between provinces.

Please read the entire article and consider the trend against what has been learned by scholars like Joshua Goldstein and Steven Pinker about death rates from war and violence; declines in deep poverty as shown by Max Roser; and child mortality rates from the World Health Organization.

[108] However, as noted by the COAG Reform Council, child mortality for the non-Indigenous population is also improving and the ratio of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child mortality rate to the non-Indigenous rate has not changed over the last 10 years and remains almost twice as high (1.9 times).

There have been some improvements in smoking rates, maternal and child health, including child mortality rates are on a downward trend and there is a narrowing of the literacy gap.

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.

Access to effective birth control, an abundance of food, and low child mortality rates would all obscure the evolutionary influences seen in the preindustrial data.

«The life expectancy gap has in fact started to widen again and the Indigenous child mortality rate is now more than double that of other children,» Commissioner Oscar said.

Outside of Europe, the UK has a higher child mortality rate than Australia, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.

In the Netherlands a home birth is the standard, yet they have one of the lowest mother / child mortality rates in the world, which isfood for thought.

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.

Over the past century, vaccines have helped lower the child mortality rate in many European and North American countries from well over 200 deaths for every 1,000 births to fewer than 10.

My baby was born in Japan, one the best rated in the world in Maternal and Child mortality rates.

However, they indicate an association between receipt of PMI funding and child mortality rates, and with population coverage of key malaria prevention interventions such as insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS).

Although Britain's child mortality rates are high compared to other countries, it has made good progress since 1979, reducing its infant mortality by 62 per cent.

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.

«UNICEF states that child mortality rates are an indicator of how well a nation meets the needs of its children,» he says.

One hypothesis for why a mate preference shift occurs is that it may be an evolutionary adaptation that served our ancestors» reproductive interests long before modern medicine, nutrition and sanitation dramatically reduced infant and child mortality rates.

Across Europe as a whole, child mortality rates are substantially worse in Central Europe (average mortality rate 6.7 deaths per 1000 births) and Eastern Europe (average mortality rate 9.7 deaths per 1000 births); the UK's under - 5 mortality rate is comparable to that of Serbia and Poland.

Such support provides these girls, their families and their communities with a lifeline — it will help prevent child and early marriages, improve maternal and child mortality rates, and bring economic, health and agricultural benefits to Malawi.

Mankind has been blessed with huge supplies of coal and oil, which made it possible to lift ourselves up from the cold, dark, 70 % child mortality rates and general squalor that typified the human condition 400 years ago.

Croakey highlighted the key points, and while the report noted some gains (e.g. overall mortality rates, child mortality rates), it also painted a stark picture of areas where there had been little or no improvement (literacy and numeracy, chronic disease) and areas that had worsened (psychological distress, adult imprisonment).

Since Congress first enacted CHIP about 20 years ago, child mortality rates have dropped significantly.