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.
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.
Not exact matches
Consider, for example, the other seven MDG objectives, such as a proposed 75 % improvement in maternal health outcomes, to a 66 % decline in
mortality rates for
children under the age
of five.
In the cost - effectiveness analysis (GiveWell estimate
of Living Goods cost effectiveness (November 2014)-RRB-, in all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability
of a
child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant
mortality rates throughout childhood, instead
of the under - 5
mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms
of 5q0.
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.
But a lack
of vaccines is a key reason high
child mortality rates persist in many resource - poor countries
of Asia and Africa.
One in five U.S.
children are now born into poverty and the infant -
mortality rate in parts
of Detroit is higher than in Honduras, but the structural causes
of poverty go unreported and remain invisible.
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.
Cuba, a poorer country than the United States but with substantially higher breastfeeding
rates and much better breastfeeding support, has an under - 5
mortality rate of 7
children per 1,000 live births (better than the United -LSB-...]
Studies show that
children who are not breastfed have higher
rates of mortality, meningitis, some types
of cancers, asthma and other respiratory illnesses, bacterial and viral infections, ear infections, juvenile diabetes, some chronic liver diseases, allergies and obesity.
As the overall
rate of under - five
mortality has declined, the proportion
of neonatal deaths (during the first month
of life) comprises an increasing proportion
of all
child deaths.
The Need to Bring Down Infant
Mortality Rate Stressed Newborn Care Week in Nagaland: Speaking as special guest, the Nagaland State Commission for Women chairperson stated that mothers need to be aware
of whatever facilities were available for them so as to ensure healthy growth and development
of their
child.
In addition, there is no difference in the overall
mortality rate at 2 years between
children of HIV + mothers randomized to breast or bottle feeding.
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.
After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, formula donations sent to affected areas resulted in immediate decreased
rates of breastfeeding and higher
rates of diarrhoea and
mortality among young
children.
6.1 per thousand is the INFANT
mortality rate, including all deaths
of children through age year.
Childhood cancer is a leading cause
of mortality among
children and adolescents in the developed world and the incidence
rate increases each year.
He added that Nestle was committed to complying with the 1981 World Health Organisation (WHO) Code
of Marketing
of Breast - Milk Substitutes, as implemented in national legislation worldwide, and followed the code or national laws — «whichever are stricter» in the 152 countries worldwide with high
child mortality and malnutrition
rates.
Infectious disease
rates are high in many less developed parts
of the world, with high infant and
child mortality rates — but industrialization, medicine, and money are not the end - all answers to optimal
child survival.
In 2001, 70 %
of mothers left the hospital breastfeeding, and 33 % were still breastfeeding at 6 months.25 If we assume that the risk structure has not changed as the overall
rates have fallen, then the overall postneonatal
mortality rate, a weighted average
of the
rate among those who were breastfed and those who were not, consists
of 70 %
of children who are breastfed when they leave the hospital and who have a
rate of 2.1 per 1000, and 30 %
of children who are not breastfed and have a
rate of 2.7.
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 i
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 i
children 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.
To reach its goals the birth center has three main objectives: (1) connecting the given care to the specific needs
of different social groups; (2) providing prenatal and birth care, offering customized information about pregnancy and
child birth to each social group and, ultimately, (3) countering the high perinatal
mortality rates [2].
Stressing the need for all violations
of the BPR to be enforced, Mrs. Alarbi said, statistics showed that the infant
mortality rate, which occurred in
children under - one was also soaring because
of the practice
of mixed feeding with baby formulas.
The
rates of maternal, infant,
child, and under - five
mortalities have reduced drastically under the National Democratic Congress - led government, President John Dramani Mahama has said.
The indicators used for the rankings were
child marriage, maternal
mortality, teenage pregnancy, women's representation in parliament and the
rate of completion
of lower - secondary school among girls.
«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.
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.
While the overall
rate of these infections in
children is still low, ESBL - producing bacteria can spread rapidly and have been linked to longer hospital stays, higher health care costs, and increased
mortality, the study authors noted.
«UNICEF states that
child mortality rates are an indicator
of how well a nation meets the needs
of its
children,» he says.
Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility
rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0
children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning
of the 19th century, when decreased
mortality in newborns resulted in fertility
rates exceeding replacement levels.
There is no significant increase in the frequency
of post-natal
mortality, birth defects and hospitalization
rate among the
children of male cancer survivors compared to the general population.
Safest was the Northeast, with 189
child fatalities and a
mortality rate of 0.38 per 100,000
children per year.
As a group, the
children had an overall
mortality rate of 22.7 percent.
The South proved deadliest: 1,550
children died in fatal wrecks; a
mortality rate of 1.34 per 100,000
children per year.
The 2,885
child fatalities represented a
mortality rate of 0.94 per 100,000
children per year.
The West had 561
child fatalities, a
mortality rate of 0.76 per 100,000
children per year.
The Midwest had 585
child fatalities, a
mortality rate of.89 per 100,000
children per year.
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
mortality rate of children under 5 years
of age is 140 per 1000, and life expectancy at birth is only 54 years.
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.
Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department
of Infectious Disease at St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain
of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high
mortality rate (60 percent
of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.
Her team has since given tPA to seven
children with plastic bronchitis, which normally has a
mortality rate of up to 60 %.
To better understand the contributing factors that lead to high
rates of infant
mortality in the South, researchers from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services» Maternal and
Child Health Bureau analyzed the most recent National Center for Health Statistics Period Linked Birth / Infant Death Data Files from 2007 - 2009.
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.
Outside
of Europe, the UK has a higher
child mortality rate than Australia, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.
«The higher than expected
child death
rates in the UK are a reminder to all
of us that, even as we are seeing
child mortality decline worldwide, countries need to examine what they are doing to make sure more
children grow into adulthood.»