Sentences with phrase «childhood deaths»

- The rate of childhood deaths worldwide is declining sharply, even faster than experts predicted; 122 million children's lives have been saved since 1990.

For a while after childhood death rates fell, they continued to do so.

Faith - based organizations are a vital and growing part of our global effort to end childhood deaths from preventable diseases.

The authors were interested in whether zinc supplements could reduce childhood death and disease, and help support growth.

Keshan disease caused many childhood deaths in China until the link to selenium was discovered and selenium supplements were provided.

The UK was shown to have the worst outcomes compared with nearly every other western European nation for early neonatal deaths (death between 0 and 6 days), post-neonatal deaths (death between 29 and 364 days), and the worst outcomes of any country for childhood deaths (death between 1 and 4 years).

These measures are known to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia and diarrhea and could help achieve the United Nations» Sustainable Development target goal of reducing under - five mortality to at least 25 per 1,000 live births by 2030.

Research suggests that supplementing pregnant women in Nepal with zinc, folic acid, vitamin A, and iron does not reduce the risk of childhood death by the age of 7 years - old compared to vitamin A alone.

Immunization is one of the most cost - effective health interventions ever known for lowering childhood deaths and disease.

«It is reasonable and prudent to conclude that most of the recent childhood deaths in those villages were caused by acute lead poisoning and take steps to stop the exposure,» the team wrote.

Preterm birth and stillbirth are leading causes of childhood death accounting for an estimated 2 million deaths per year; however there are few safe and effective interventions.

«I'm Libertarian enough to be conceptually pro-gun, but I've taken care of enough teenage suicides and accidental childhood deaths to not even let my kids go to houses where I know there's a gun.»

But, Gates said, «Childhood death gets pretty high up for me.»

Vaccines are also critical to reducing preventable childhood deaths from pneumonia and diarrheal disease, which continue to take a terrible toll in Africa.

The study is the first Cochrane systematic review to focus on zinc as a means to prevent childhood death, including deaths caused by diarrhea, one of the biggest killers of under - fives.

He proved that a vitamin A deficiency dramatically increased childhood morbidity and mortality from infectious disease, and that a 4 - cent dose of vitamin A not only prevented and cured eye disease, but also reduced childhood deaths by 34 percent.

In the days before vaccination, measles was responsible for about half of childhood deaths from other illnesses, the team says.

Childhood deaths, malnutrition, and extreme poverty are all on the decline worldwide.

In addition to providing basic, everyday health services, these frontline caregivers will focus on trying to stop the most pointless of childhood deaths — those from vaccine - preventable diseases, treatable infections, and starvation.

In Nigeria, the disease is responsible for 60 % outpatient visits to health facilities, 30 % childhood death, 25 % of death in children under one year and 11 % maternal death.

My hope for the future is for major new reductions in childhood deaths — they could fall by half by 2025 if we could deliver existing vaccines, malaria treatment, and today's other lifesaving tools with 90 percent penetration to those at risk.

Sepsis is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States and it's responsible for 7 percent of all childhood deaths.

«There are some aspects of childhood death that are quite easy to reduce if you have the interventions: things like pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhoea,» says Cesar Victora, an epidemiologist at the Federal University of Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Our Paleo ancestors may have died, on average, younger than us (about 35 years — see this site for a full breakdown), but their shorter lifespans were due more to injury, bacterial infection, childhood death and death at child birth.

Racked by guilt over his older brother's childhood death and stuck in the dead - end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running track.

Since these countries face problems of childhood deaths and food shortages the idea of paying extra money for energy causes a lot of problems since it leads to a lot of things like fertilizer costing more.

Threats to health - low birth weight, lack of insurance, childhood deaths and teen alcohol and drug use - all saw improvement.

«Many parents are surprised to find out that a leading cause of childhood death is choking from balloons.