Sentences with phrase «fewer child deaths»

Globally, four million (4.02 million) fewer child deaths occurred in 2015 than in 2000, mainly thanks to reductions in deaths from pneumonia, diarrhea, death during birth, malaria and measles.

Much of the initial rise came from fewer child deaths.

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Is that what you call allegedly performing the odd miracle to save a few people while allowing many, including innocent children, to die horrible deaths?

Twin Towers fall Muslims world wide cheer Muslims behead innocent people, Muslims say nothing Muslims kill their own with suicide bombs, Muslims say nothing Muslims use children in suicide attacks, Muslims say nothing Muslims use the mentally ill in suicide attacks, Muslims say nothing A few Quran get burned by mistake, Muslim world wide chant death to America Says all I need to know about Muslims...

Here are a few helpful tips that I've gathered from three separate Counseling journals about how to help your children in both the dying process and in death.

Robert Coles, author and child psychiatrist at Harvard, met and had several conversations with Karen Horney when he was a medical student and she was hospitalized in New York City, a few days before her death.

«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.

This access, along with the sanitation and hygiene training provided, lead to better educated children; stronger crops; fewer deaths from water - related diseases; and more empowered women.

I can't tell you why 5 year olds die of cancer but then again I know very few children that die of cancer but I know tons of people that smoked themselves to death.

We were about to carry out the headboard of the old mahogany bedstead when John suddenly stopped, and, with a few carefully chosen words, spoke about the death of his infant child many years ago.

If prayer worked, everyone would do it, because prayerful people would experience better health, less divorce, fewer children on drugs, greater success, lower death rates, less obesity... there would be no war or starvation or murdered babies.

As I've spent the past few years struggling with doubt and grasping for faith, I've found that being ready with an answer does not do justice to the seriousness of questions like, why does God allow innocent children to starve to death?

One church official told us that the people of a mountain village made him sit and listen while they described how 50 of their children had starved to death within a few weeks.

Most people live thier live not honoring a supreme being and you can see the complete and total mess down here on earth — war, death, slavery, child abuse, just to name a few.

Shaking a baby is a horrible tragedy that can cause certain brain damage and often death whereas letting the baby cry for a few minutes (not hours) while you get your bearings or call for help, will not hurt the child.

Especially if you're one of the first few who stumbles upon something you really didn't want to see — such as your own child's death.

It's not worth losing your child, whether to CPS or to death, in order to get a few extra hours of peace and quiet.

Where case management has improved, the number of deaths from diarrhoea has decreased sharply, and fewer children are seen with severe dehydration.

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

Fewer children would die from diarrhea and pneumonia — two of the leading causes of child mortality globally — as well as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-- a leading cause of infant mortality in the U.S..

Up until a few days before his death on April 14th, 2005, he taught English to children at a school in Guangzhou, China.

disease especially as only a few weeks ago in the Commons the Labour side were epitomising DC as a decent family man on the death of his child?

It concerns several deaths of children in the past few years and the inability of Erie County Child Protective Services to prevent these tragedies.

«The evils of racism, the evils of poverty, the inexcusable reality that our educational system fails our children, the concentration of wealth in the hands of too few, and the experience of deprivation in the lives of too many,» he said, alluding to the outbursts of racial violence following the deaths of black men at the hands of police in Ferguson, Mo. and Baltimore.

Yet, few studies have examined parents» mental health and personal growth, especially in black and Hispanic parents, following their child's death in the NICU or PICU.

I recently recalled that little girl and countless other children saved from certain death by chloroquine because I was reading about 80 U.S. Marines struck with falciparum malaria a few weeks after deploying to Liberia in August 2003.

The biobank included relatively few old people, but it did have information about participants» parents, so the team also looked for connections between parental death and allele frequencies in their children.

Among children under the age of 5 — the group at the highest risk of severe disease and death from malaria — there were 16 % fewer cases in the villages that received ivermectin at 3 - week intervals.

In the 1980s in Portugal and Japan, communities which cut salt intake over several years had lower blood pressure, even among children, and fewer deaths among older people from stroke.

Death rates for each major category of childhood cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third of 1 percent of cancer deaths occur in children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination of childhood cancer deaths would have little impact on overall cancer mortality.

A few years after her son's death, Hare and her husband found themselves ready to have another child.

Having out - witted the powers that be in the first Hunger Games — a TV spectacle in which children compete to the death for the entertainment of the privileged few — and survived with her ostensible romantic partner Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), deepens her rebellion here.

There are few things more terrible than the death of a child, or more frequently exploited by fiction writers for the sake of a cheap cry.

From the envy of their neighbors to the mandates of the government, from the fanaticism of a religious order called the Sisters of the Rose to the everyday difficulties of staying close as husband and wife, mother and child - all these forces led to a horrifying crime: the death of their seven - year - old grandson, drowned with cruel irony in one of the few ponds left in the countryside.

He talks of the plagues of spiders, snakes and grasshoppers (aka locusts) that exploded, how people tethered themselves with rope just to walk a few hundred yards from their front door, and how the children coughed themselves to death with «dust pneumonia».

Although they seemingly have few things in common, a white woman named Hazel and a black woman named Vida are linked by the devastating deaths of their young children.

She is also the author of A Few Fair Days (1971), a collection of short stories for children set on a Cumberland farm, and two novels for teenagers: A Long Way From Verona (1971), which explores a wartime childhood in Yorkshire; and The Summer After the Funeral (1973), a story about a loss of innocence after the death of a father.

Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things, written and narrated by Loudon Wainwright III, published by HighBridge Audio, a division of Recorded Books

Everything else being equal, the main reasons to purchase permanent insurance are: (1) if you have a dependent, such as a special - needs child or handicapped loved one, who relies almost solely on your income to live and who will need to rely on it after your death in perpetuity, or (2) if you have few, if any, other assets and don't actively plan on having any that could be used to cover the cost of your funeral, to pay off any outstanding debts, or to provide some inheritance to your family.

Divorce, deployment, having a child, developing an illness, unemployment, homelessness, or even death are a few common examples.

The Clean Power Plan will also avoid up to 3,600 premature deaths, lead to 90,000 fewer asthma attacks in children, and prevent 300,000 missed work and school days.

It also says, by reducing air pollution, it will avoid up to 3,600 premature deaths and lead to 90,000 fewer asthma attacks in children.

Even if these people have fewer children than their parents did, there will be a time lag in the demographic transition during which the number of births still exceeds the number of deaths and the population continues to rise significantly.

«Increased ITN coverage in Kenya has resulted in 44 per cent fewer deaths in children, and increases in the birth weight of babies, according to preliminary data from the Malaria Control Department of the Kenyan Ministry of Health, announced at a meeting in Nairobi last week (16 August).»

Children can drown in only a few inches of water, and it takes only minutes for a child to be without oxygen before serious brain injuries or even death occur.

A few years ago, a male pedestrian was walking along the road at night when an intoxicated driver struck him with his work vehicle, resulting in his untimely death and leaving his three minor children without their father.

Cribs with slats that are too far apart and allow a child to be caught and strangled, crib bumpers or pads with strings that can strangle a child, and crib mobiles with small parts that can cause a choking injury or death are only a few of many examples.

Everything else being equal, the main reasons to purchase permanent insurance are: (1) if you have a dependent, such as a special - needs child or handicapped loved one, who relies almost solely on your income to live and who will need to rely on it after your death in perpetuity, or (2) if you have few, if any, other assets and don't actively plan on having any that could be used to cover the cost of your funeral, to pay off any outstanding debts, or to provide some inheritance to your family.

Spouse and child - term riders allow you to add protection for your whole family, critical illness and disability income riders offer financial support in times of need, and an accidental death rider can bolster your death benefit in light of an unforeseen tragedy — that's just naming a few.

Since the death of baby Peter Connellly, many local authorities have become more risk averse and are more readily applying for care proceedings, with some children now being removed from their parents, who in the same circumstances a few years ago, wouldn't have been.