Sentences with phrase «child survival as»

Attendance at birth has been suggested to be essential in facilitating mother - child survival as the physiology of birth changed during human evolutionary history.

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It's one of the earliest survival skills we learn as growing children.

More recently another wise man, the American trendspotter George Barna, writing in «Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions» (Regal), identified the spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's sChildren into Spiritual Champions» (Regal), identified the spiritual upbringing of children as the most critical factor in the church's schildren as the most critical factor in the church's survival.

I do not believe people would act that way as we have a long history of humans working together in social groups for survival relying on each other and taking care of sick and injured and protecting the weaker child bearing females in the group.

If we now have plenty of people to guarantee our survival as a race, and if lots more people may make that survival harder, then it's time to follow the lead of those clerics a little — not to embrace celibacy necessarily, but to love your child to pieces, and with whatever you have left to start working your way down the list.

To our knowledge they have two sons, both named, as were Hosea's children, symbolically: Shear - Jashub, «a remnant shall return,» 7:3, obviously predicating the tragedy that will leave only a remnant, but at the same time affirming the expectation of productive survival; and Maher - Shalal - Hash - Baz, «The spoil speeds, the prey hastes,» 8:1 - 3, with initial reference to the imminent collapse of the Rezin - Pekah alliance against Jerusalem in 734, but perhaps later with reference to Judah herself as the soon - to - be spoil and prey of Assyria.

Black women inevitably ground a militant feminism not only in their liberation as persons but also in the validation of woman as mother, fighting for the survival of her children.

The focus is on providing clean water for agriculture, food and energy production as well as for children's healthy development and survival.

IBFAN has expressed concern over the conflict of interest among lead authors of the Lancet child survival series as it has an important influence on health policies.

Follow these holiday survival tips to make things easier — for you as well as your children.

You as the adoptive parent will help the child replace those old survival skills with a new, healthy, way of surviving.

In spite of its critical importance as the cornerstone of child health and survival, aggressive and inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes, and other food products that compete with breastfeeding, continues to mislead parents and undermine efforts by Member States to protect and support children's rights to health and ensure sound objective information.

Patti Rundall, Co-Chair of IBFAN says: «Follow - up formula imarketing has done much harm to infant and young child health and survival — all over the world the companies have used all manner of tactics to promote these expensive products as essential for health, using claims, idealisation, gifts, samples and advertising.

But, going back to your post, one of the things I loved best about this book was the way that she challenges the all - consuming attachment parenting norm (along with any other norm you can think of), painting mothers as free agents, making difficult choices for their own and their childrens» survival.

Pamela Morrison's interest in HIV and breastfeeding arose from having worked as a private practice IBCLC in a country where HIV - prevalence amongst pregnant women reached 25 %, yet breastfeeding was both the cultural norm and a cornerstone of child survival.

Be a force for action and hope and join our international community of volunteers as we unite to bring humanitarian aid in the form of child carriers, baby beds and survival items to refugee families.

Breastfeeding support is the most effective method of primary disease prevention ranking far above supports such as vaccinations (see The Lancet Child Survival series) and other interventions that we have available to us.

According to experts this is a survival instinct such as sucking or rooting that is believed to make the child more appealing to you.

Finally, journaling allows a future possibility of helping a child understand his or her own history as a contributor to the survival and healing process.

I would be lying to you if I said that I've never bribed my child with some sort of food (ahem... potty training) and sometimes it comes down to survival, which may mean offering a box of raisins or a gummy bear once in a while as a reward.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

As marriage becomes increasingly optional — no longer necessary for child - bearing, economic survival or social acceptance — individuals who decide to tie the knot can approach their union as a relationship designed to, above all else, foster a happier, healthier lifAs marriage becomes increasingly optional — no longer necessary for child - bearing, economic survival or social acceptance — individuals who decide to tie the knot can approach their union as a relationship designed to, above all else, foster a happier, healthier lifas a relationship designed to, above all else, foster a happier, healthier life.

This is why children who are overtly abused continue to feel love toward their abusive parents — the children are adapting out of their need for survival, and attachment to parents is as much a component of survival as air and food.

Eating is an essential survival mechanism, it only makes sense that a human child will instinctively begin eating when she is developmentally ready to do so, just as she will begin to sit up, walk, and communicate, all on her own with no specialized instruction or coercion from her parents.

An infant's cry is also intended to increase the likelihood of its survival, as a mother's instinct is usually to go to her child at the first sign of distress.

In ancient times, babywearing was used as a means of survival, but today it's widely acknowledged as one of the most natural ways to promote bonding between parent and child.

«While breastfeeding is recognized as fundamental to child survival, nutrition and development, its importance to maternal health, protection against non-communicable diseases and contribution to environmental sustainability is not as well known.

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.

The objective of this WHO / UNICEF report is to focus attention on the prevention and management of diarrhoeal diseases as central to improving child survival.

As we enter the final 500 days of the MDG era, our analysis underlines a major transition for child survival symbolised by the fact that preterm birth complications are now the leading cause of under - 5 deaths globally, not just of deaths in the neonatal period.»

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

The survey began with a group of some 3000 women who were pregnant in 1983 and followed the general health, nutrition, medical care, and survival of their children; it has since expanded into an intergenerational study of health, education, and sexual behavior as those children grew up and are now having children of their own.

Since pediatric critical care was recognized as a specialty area of medicine in the 1980s - 1990s, survival and disease recovery rates for acutely ill children have improved significantly.

Of course it is equally possible to argue that the menopause has evolved as an adaptation to benefit the survival of existing children, and that many women have always lived to a ripe old age — the great hurdle was to survive childhood.

According to a new study published online as an «article in press» in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), children who are sick enough to require mechanical ventilation or dialysis before transplantation achieve the same survival benefit as children who are stable prior to the surgical procedure.

«Lee not only had long experience with global health, but real energy and real drive as well,» says William Foege, a senior investigator on child development at the Task Force for Child Survival and Development who has known Lee for decchild development at the Task Force for Child Survival and Development who has known Lee for decChild Survival and Development who has known Lee for decades.

But in stressful times, during which human survival is less guaranteed, men would be more willing to risk a physically dissimilar partner in order to father as many children as possible.

This is an extraordinary success story, but we should not be complacent — some regions of China have not performed as well as others, and the next step is to use lessons from the most successful regions to intensify efforts to improve child survival in the regions with the poorest child survival.»

Current guidelines recommend either treatment for out - of - hospital cardiac arrests in children, as both methods have resulted in equal rates of survival and prevention of brain injury.

But, if a child is classified as high - risk, the survival rate falls to approximately 50 percent even with an aggressive treatment plan that includes high - dose chemotherapy, surgery, stem cell transplant, radiation and immunotherapy.

The incidence of MDS in children is very low, however, after chemotherapy or radiation, as many as 2 - 6 % will develop MDS, with a median survival of only 13 months!

His book, The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers, pulls together several strands from his life — the knowledge gained from personal experiences as a child of a family caregiver, the writing skills honed in his years as a magazine journalist, and professional expertise gleaned during nearly 20 years as a clinician specializing in families and illness.

The Jews — among them Schrader and Knaup's formerly well - to - do married couple — a pregnant woman, children, and several other types are, notably shown as being ruthless and potentially amoral in their own right, but given the fact that their only chance for survival is hanging by a thread held by an opportunistic goon, their actions make sense in context.

One of my personal favorite moments is when Florence describes her sudden understanding as to why her mother always left her and her siblings to go take care of a white family's children: Now I know that love is a kind of survival.

With temperatures rising and the chances of survival plummeting with each passing day, Catherine and Matthew find themselves pushed to the brink, as they struggle to survive the uncertainty of their children's fate.

But everything changes when he witnesses the important role women (as sisters together; mothers of children) have for the future survival of humanity.

Caught in the middle is Litvenko's daughter, Katia (Hannah Ware), who is also searching for her father, having been abandoned as a child, equipped with near psychic survival skills, including an extrasensory perception for lurking dangers.

Public health research shows that children who are fighting off diseases and emotional trauma often have a better chance of recovery and survival when they engage in child - centered activities as part of their treatment.

It makes vivid the gap between «children born to educated parents who are more likely to read to them as babies, to drive them to dance class, to nudge them into college themselves — and children whose parents live at the edge of economic survival.»

This is a question that arises again and again, as many people believe a child's survival skills are inherently natural and learnt through experience.