Sentences with phrase «death rates by»

SMRs were calculated as follows: standard death rates by five year age group were obtained using ABS Australian death data for 2006 and the ABS estimated resident Australian population for the Census year 2006 [14]; these rates were applied to the ABS estimated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population NSW 2007 [2] by sex and five year age group and summed to obtain the expected number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths; finally, the ratios of observed number of deaths for the three groups «as reported», the algorithm and «at least one report» were compared to the expected number of deaths to give SMRs for the three groups.

i wonder when we'll have a politician with the courage to speak the truth: that decreasing death rates by improvements and advances in medical care and nutrition and living conditions in the third world — without an even more dramatic reduction in birth rates — will only make the planet's environmental problems worse than they already are.

So he designed a study of 1,050 self - identified black patients and found in 2004 that the medication decreased their death rates by 43 percent.

- A simple checklist helped surgical teams cut death rates by nearly half and reduce major complications of surgery by more than a third in a pilot study at eight hospitals worldwide.

Such studies suggest that ischaemic conditioning can lower death rates by as much as two - thirds.

The chart shows neonatal death rates by cause.

In Buffalo, New York, they found that cleaning the air to the level of the cleanest area would lower the average bronchitis death rate by 50 percent.

That's a horrific 1/100 death rate by their own admission: http://www.thefarm.org/charities/mid.html

PCC's efforts are just one example of efforts to attain a global goal set 15 years ago, when world leaders committed themselves to decreasing the maternal death rate by 75 percent from 1990 to 2015.

In 2005 — 2006, under the leadership of a new administration, PACCA has impressively reduced the death rate by more than 40 percent during the last year — a level of success that takes most communities five years to achieve.

They are addressing the high kitten death rate by establishing kitten nurseries where the little felines can receive the care they need until they're old enough to be spayed or neutered and put up for adoption.

You can add, as well, that nurses with BSN degrees can reduce the risk of patient's death rate by 4 percent.

Not exact matches

Some good news in the war on breast cancer: «From 1989 to 2015, breast cancer death rates decreased by 39 %, which translates to 322,600 averted breast cancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer Society.

Premature death rates for those in the bottom 60 % are up by about 20 % since 2000.

In England they found that «cleaning the air to the level of cleanliness enjoyed by the area with the best air [in the UK] would mean a 40 percent drop in the bronchitis death rate among males.»

In the District of Columbia, concerns about the high maternal mortality rate — in 2014, it stood at about 40.7 deaths per 100,000 births, according to the analysis by United Health Foundation, substantially exceeding the U.S. rate and those of neighboring Virginia and Maryland — have periodically sparked talk of a review committee, but not enough to push a measure through.

In Africa, where the vast majority of malaria deaths occur, the malaria death rate has come down by more than 70 percent.

«If hand hygiene compliance rates increased by 8.7 percentage points across the board during a typical work shift, this could potentially eliminate as many as 1.2 million infections per year, save up to $ 25 billion, and prevent up to 70,000 unnecessary deaths in the United States,» reports Knowledge@Wharton.

In the coming decades, as baby - boomers hit old age, the annual death rate will climb from 8.3 per 1,000 people today to 10.2 by 2050 in America, from 10.6 to 13.7 in Italy and from 9.1 to 12.8 in Spain.

By charting death rates against those historical changes, while controlling for health care spending, health insurance, and wealth, the authors were able to attribute a 20 percent dip in infant deaths to a 10 - week extension in paid leave.

These changes are not significantly affected by economic developments, with the exception of changes in the interest rate forecast on federal employees» future benefits, such as pensions, death benefits, etc..

The consequent improved irrigation reduced calves» death rate 75 %, increased milk production 50-fold, and allowed Nestle to pay higher prices to farmers than those set by the government.

Two things are clear and can be understood by everybody: Death can befall us every moment and we have to die anytime at any rate.

His death rated a segment on the PBS News Hour, during which the inconvenient fact that Seeger had been a member of the U.S. Communist Party for years was finessed by the expedient of noting that he had eventually left the Party.

Boxing and MMA can both be differentiated from other dangerous sports, such as ice hockey, motor racing, American football and rugby (which all have, on average, higher death rates) by the fact that, within the rules, inflicting physical violence on your opponent is the primary goal.

Worldwide population growth has been propelled principally by falling death rates, which is to say, by rising expectation of life at birth.

At any rate, it was left to Christian theologians of the last two centuries to expressly try, in one way or another, to «overcome theism,» and only in our own time have there been theologies of «radical demythologizing» and of «the death of God,» as well as various attempts to salvage religious discourse by interpreting it exhaustively in noncognitive terms.

To take one more of many possible examples, the possibilities for supporting life on the earth are limited, and our successes in reducing death rates are contributing to the specter raised by what is generally called the «population explosion.»

In a study by Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe of the University of Washington medical school, surveying the opinions of 394 individuals on the amount of readjustment required to meet life events, the death of a spouse had been given the highest rating.

Dominic was about forty - five years old by then, and had only six more years to live, but all his life and experience up until then had been preparing him for this moment, and the six years before his death saw the Order increase at a phenomenal rate, a testimony to the divine inspiration behind it.

Many are addicted to drugs, and the death - rate among them (by murder) is quite high also.

One of the ways in which the dread fact of death has been made less important, for a great many people at any rate, has been by talk about «life after death».

But if the cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality by six percent, but the increase in death from suicide and drug and alcohol poisoning stays the same, then the overall death rate increases by two percent.

A significant increase in death by self - destruction demands attention whether it affects the overall death rate of a population or not.

To wit, if a new cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality for a group by ten percent, but death from suicide and drug and alcohol abuse increases, say, by eight percent, then the overall death rate for the group goes down by two percent.

Nonetheless, the changing rates does press the question: Why do members of any group in the U.S. increasingly numb themselves to death by drug or alcohol poisoning, or even take the more - direct path of suicide?

The big puzzle left unanswered by Case and Deaton is the «why» question: Why have the rates of these types of death increased for this age group of white Americans, but have continued to decline for Hispanics and African Americans (although the absolute death rate for African Americans remains shockingly high even as overall death rates decline), and have continued to decline for Europeans?

Yet by refusing to release the death rate, MANA can maintain the illusion of plausible deniability and continue to fool unsuspecting women who are contemplating homebirth.

However, while amnio increases the rate of pregnancy loss by 6 %, homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death by 200 % or more.

Yeah, some percentage of deaths might be caused by a faulty car seat, but we know that using a car seat is still the right call because of the RATE, which already takes malfunction into account.

They didn't want anyone to know that homebirth had triple the neonatal death rate of hospital birth, so they deliberately obscured it by using the wrong denominator in their calculations.

A recent data collection effort by the State of Oregon includes the planned site of birth, and the death rates are even higher.

The authors concluded that the decision to plan a birth attended by a registered midwife at home versus in the hospital was associated with very low and comparable rates of perinatal death.

It even reduces the chances of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), cutting the rates by more than half, according to Bradley University.

Since the campaign began, SIDS death rates have dropped by 50 % (see figure).

The real death rate for homebirths attended by CPMs and other lay midwives is undoubtedly much higher.

For a long time, the quality of maternity care has been measured by the rate of deaths to mothers and babies.

As I discussed in yesterday's post (New analysis from Arizona shows — yet again — that homebirth triples the neonatal death rate), the authors of the analysis, after demonstrating that homebirth increases the risk of neonatal death by a factor of three reach a bizarre conclusion:

You may recall that back in August 2010, Melissa Cheyney, the Director of Research for the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) and also the head of the Board of Direct Entry Midwifery, rejected a call by the State of Oregon for access to the MANA homebirth death rates for Oregon.

The argument that the death and complication rates for homebirth when there is little to no legal route (Yes, CNMs are able to perform homebirth in NC but they are required to be overseen by an Obstetrician and therefore most work in birthing centers and hospitals) are proof of why it should not be considered for legalization and regulation is the same one seen when abortion is prohibited.