Sentences with phrase «deaths of children under»

Keep Watch Keep Watch is a Royal Life Saving Society public education program aimed at preventing drowning deaths of children under five.

Each year, an average of 390 drowning deaths of children under the age of 15 are reported to the federal government.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

«Dehydration as a result of diarrhoea is responsible for a quarter of all deaths of children under five in this country, and it's eminently preventable,» says Garth Jafford, the man behind the new series.

Measles accounts for more than 7 % of all deaths of children under five around the world, half of them among infants under the age of one.

The World Health Organization says that «a modest increase in breastfeeding rates could prevent up to 10 % of all deaths of children under five: Breastfeeding plays an essential and sometimes underestimated role in the treatment and prevention of childhood illness ¹

Per the World Health Organization, «a modest increase in breastfeeding rates could prevent up to 10 % of all deaths of children under five: Breastfeeding plays an essential and sometimes underestimated role in the treatment and prevention of childhood illness.»

Scientific evidence has shown that breastfeeding could lead to a 13 per cent reduction in deaths of children under five if infants were exclusively breastfed for 6 months and continued to be breastfed up to two years.

(kellymom.com) Also, according to the World Health Organization, «a modest increase in breastfeeding rates could prevent up to 10 % of all deaths of children under five,» due, in part, to tainted water supplies, but also due to the immunity factors.

According to statistics, around 40 % car accident deaths of children under 8 are caused by side collisions.

The World Health Organization has previously reported that 10 percent of deaths of children under 5 are somehow linked to air pollution.

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexpected, sudden death of a child under age 1.

Homicide by Child Abuse — Either 1) causing the death of a child under the age of eleven while committing child abuse or neglect, and the death occurs under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to human life; or (2) knowingly assisting another person to commit child abuse or neglect, and the child abuse or neglect results in the death of a child under the age of eleven.

Not exact matches

We examined mortality figures for children under the age of 5 in Ethiopia and Guatemala and found that adoptions to the U.S. likely prevented the deaths of more than 600 children between 2005 and 2011.

The most common diseases under this category is bronchitis or pneumonia which is responsible for 16 % of global deaths of children younger than 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.

This rider provides a $ 10,000 death benefit for all of your children under age 18.

Simply put, Jesus told the nation of fleshly Israel just three days before his death: «Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent to her — how often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings!

Male child soldiers are forced to rape under threat of death as part of their initiation, while in other cases men are rewarded for displays of brutality.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

«9 In 1876 Melville, in describing the happy domestic scene of a mother and child, remarked, «Under such scenes abysses be — / Dark quarries where few care to pry.10 Perhaps he remembered that day not ten years before when his own eldest son, 18 years old, shot himself to death in his room at home.

The media have brought to public attention several cases in which Christian Science parents have been prosecuted for the deaths of their children while under spiritual treatment (cases, which the church argues are unrepresentative of its healing record).

Twenty - three other alcoholics reported broken homes — divorce, «emotional divorce» (i.e., constant strife), or the death of a parent when the child was under eighteen.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

It is a disease of poverty and poor diet, responsible for 1.9 to 2.8 million preventable deaths annually, mostly of children under 5 years old and women.

Children under five are at the most risk of death.

According to the CPSC, drownings are the leading accidental cause of death in ages 1 - 4, and in summer 2014, 112 children under the age of 5 drowned in a pool or spa.

According to a report from the CPSC, between 2000 and 2010 there were 245 reports of furniture tip - over deaths in children ages 8 an under, with the majority of them being under 5.

UNICEF's From the First Hour of Life report points out that «If appropriate complementary feeding practices were scaled up to nearly universal levels, approximately 100,000 deaths in children under five could be averted each year.»

A report from the World Health Organisation on the progress in implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes suggests «breastfeeding has the potential to prevent about 800 000 deaths among children under five each year.»

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.

A 2007 study found that children under the age of two are 75 percent less likely to suffer severe injury or death if they are in a rear - facing seat; the risk of injury or death goes up dramatically in a front - facing seat, according to the Injury Prevention journal.

Pool fencing is a must, as drowning is unfortunately one of the top causes of death for children 5 and under.

During 2010, a total of 1418 children under 10 died in transportation accidents, for a death rate of roughly 2.2 per 100,000 per year, or 22 per 100,000 total by age 10.

That is 11.6 % of all deaths amongst children under five years old could be prevented by breastfeeding.

In Canada, drowning is the number one cause of unintentional injury deaths among children one to four years of age and the second leading cause of preventable death for children under 10 years

It has been known for many years that breastfeeding is protective against diarrhea and pneumonia, two of the leading causes of hospitalization and death in children under five years of age.

In many countries, particularly those with a generally poor level of health, malnutrition is the major cause of death in children under 5, with 50 % of all those cases being within the first year of life.

That may be why choking continues to be one of the leading causes of death for children under age four or five.

Between 1997 and 2009, the rate of deaths dropped 45 % for children under the age of 16 but it is still the leading cause of death in children over the age of 4.

That's because car crashes are the number one cause of death and injury to children under the age of 14.

The Lancet series on Child Survival (2003) have noted that 13 percent of under fives deaths can be reduced by the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding.

Maternal breastfeeding support is critical to achieve the very important targets of the UN MDGs and effectively reduce under fives deaths, infant and young child health and improve maternal survival.

The lack of or inadequate breastfeeding practices alone result in almost 12 per cent of all deaths among children under age 5.1

Deaths of an estimated 820,000 children under the age of five could be prevented globally every year with increased breastfeeding.

Most causes of death in children are easily prevented, yet almost 11 million children under five die each year.

Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death for children under 5, causing an estimated 1 million deaths in 2015 globally.

Due to serious risks of slowed breathing and death in children under the age of 12, codeine and tramadol medications are now restricted by the FDA for children under 12.

Drowning is a major cause of death in preschool children, with babies under one most likely to drown in the bath or bucket than anywhere else.

Increasing breastfeeding to near - universal levels for infants and young children could save over 800,000 children's lives a year worldwide, equivalent to 13 % of all deaths in children under two, and prevent an extra 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year.