Sentences with phrase «high child mortality»

Water - borne disease is a key cause of high child mortality rates in many developing countries.

A Flinders University researcher has found that strong ties to fatalistic religious beliefs, superstitions and Read more about Nepal battles high child mortality - Scimex

Historically, grandmothers have been important to their grandchildren, and the help provided by grandmothers has increased grandchild survival during the times of high child mortality.

In an era of high child mortality and chronically poor health, as well as rapidly changing norms for childrearing, the bureau was seen as a salvation.

He added that Nestle was committed to complying with the 1981 World Health Organisation (WHO) Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes, as implemented in national legislation worldwide, and followed the code or national laws — «whichever are stricter» in the 152 countries worldwide with high child mortality and malnutrition rates.

But a lack of vaccines is a key reason high child mortality rates persist in many resource - poor countries of Asia and Africa.

States with the highest child mortality rates per 100,000 per year were Mississippi (3.23); Wyoming (3.06); Alabama (2.71); Montana (2.23); West Virginia (2.16); Oklahoma (2.02).

Outside of Europe, the UK has a higher child mortality rate than Australia, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.

Not exact matches

According to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality, a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to face a firearm homicide.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

Disease, epidemics, famine and high mortality among children took their toll.

One in five U.S. children are now born into poverty and the infant - mortality rate in parts of Detroit is higher than in Honduras, but the structural causes of poverty go unreported and remain invisible.

Cuba, a poorer country than the United States but with substantially higher breastfeeding rates and much better breastfeeding support, has an under - 5 mortality rate of 7 children per 1,000 live births (better than the United -LSB-...]

Our solution, at Midwife International, is to train midwives who are equipped to work in resource - constrained regions where maternal and child mortality is high and the need for professional midwives is greatest.

Unless he comes from a culture in which infant mortality is so high that it is traditional to wait until a child is born to hold a shower, I can only conclude that his unwillingness is a form of punishment.

Bialik mentions high maternal - infant mortality rates and increasing social and psychiatric problems in children.

Studies show that children who are not breastfed have higher rates of mortality, meningitis, some types of cancers, asthma and other respiratory illnesses, bacterial and viral infections, ear infections, juvenile diabetes, some chronic liver diseases, allergies and obesity.

Personally, I think it's curious how many physicians and mothers - to - be place such a high emphasis on the 0.11 % risk reduction of neonatal mortality from hospital births, while thinking nothing of engaging other common practices (i.e. poor dietary habits, overuse of antibiotics, participation in contact sports) that certainly increase their child's lifetime risk of chronic disease, injury, or even death.

High - dose vitamin A supplementation programs improve child survival in settings where under - 5 mortality and vitamin A deficiency rates are hHigh - dose vitamin A supplementation programs improve child survival in settings where under - 5 mortality and vitamin A deficiency rates are highhigh.

In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.

* Issue 38, Aug - Oct 2005 Insert 1 - 1st International Training Course on Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Insert 2 - Anatomy of a Successful Campaign Insert 3 - Fighting an Old Battle in a New World Insert 4 - 2005 World Summit Outcome Insert 5 - High mortality & malnutrition affect Muslim children most says UN children's agency

Recent evidence suggests that mortality could be further reduced by treating high - risk children also with azithromycin antibiotic.

After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, formula donations sent to affected areas resulted in immediate decreased rates of breastfeeding and higher rates of diarrhoea and mortality among young children.

As a registered nurse and the injury prevention coordinator for Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Winkler teaches safe sleep practices in East St. Louis, an area plagued by a higher than average infant mortality.

Infectious disease rates are high in many less developed parts of the world, with high infant and child mortality rates — but industrialization, medicine, and money are not the end - all answers to optimal child survival.

Children are the most vulnerable in emergencies — child mortality can soar from 2 to 70 times higher than average due to diarrhoea, respiratory illness and malnutrition.

To reach its goals the birth center has three main objectives: (1) connecting the given care to the specific needs of different social groups; (2) providing prenatal and birth care, offering customized information about pregnancy and child birth to each social group and, ultimately, (3) countering the high perinatal mortality rates [2].

«Primarily because of grand corruption under successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»

Maternal mortality is increasingly high, Nigeria has one of the poorest maternal and child health indices in the world with maternal 800-3000 deaths per 100,000 live births, life time risk of dying from pregnancy related complications of 1:8 compared to 1:10 in developing countries (Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2004).

«And mortality in children living with HIV remains high.»

«If family planning reduces the high - risk, high - parity women who have had many children and are at higher risk of death, then certainly it should reduce the maternal mortality ratio,» Black says.

URIs are the most common reason that parents take young children to the doctor and lead to massive direct costs, high indirect costs including work absenteeism among parents, and even mortality, especially in disadvantaged groups, say the authors.

While the overall rate of these infections in children is still low, ESBL - producing bacteria can spread rapidly and have been linked to longer hospital stays, higher health care costs, and increased mortality, the study authors noted.

For example, in developing countries where infant mortality rates are high, a woman's educational level is the strongest factor in determining whether her children survive or not.

In the European Union, children younger than 14 years account for a higher proportion of pedestrian mortalities than any other age group except the elderly; in the U.S., among children killed by cars, nearly a quarter were on foot.

Whether education rises from high levels (say, 10 years to 11) or low levels (from one year to two), child mortality drops (the lines get thinner).

The Tsimané's distinctive child - rearing styles may stem from a sobering reason: a high infant mortality rate.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

Children born during years of high neonatal mortality who survived to adulthood didn't live as long as those born in healthier years.

To better understand the contributing factors that lead to high rates of infant mortality in the South, researchers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» Maternal and Child Health Bureau analyzed the most recent National Center for Health Statistics Period Linked Birth / Infant Death Data Files from 2007 - 2009.

New research suggests that men raised in countries with higher average lifespans and lower child mortality more strongly prefer women with softer features than do men raised in less healthy nations.

Further analyses show that graft failure and mortality rates remained higher among minority groups compared to white children after accounting for differences in demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors.

«The higher than expected child death rates in the UK are a reminder to all of us that, even as we are seeing child mortality decline worldwide, countries need to examine what they are doing to make sure more children grow into adulthood.»

At issue is child mortality in developing nations with high rates of HIV infection.

Diarrhea is a global disease with the high morbidity and mortality rate in children.

Prepregnancy care in diabetic women of child - bearing age is still unsatisfying, due to consistently increasing rates of serious perinatal complications, including excess malformation rates and higher mortality (Table 3)(341).

The students are employing that technology — which includes CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) systems, DNA microarrays, real - time polymerase chain reactions, RNA sequencing and western blotting — to study acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which affects both children and adults and comes with a high mortality rate for older patients.

IPCC [26] projects the following trends, if global warming continue to increase, where only trends assigned very high confidence or high confidence are included: (i) increased malnutrition and consequent disorders, including those related to child growth and development, (ii) increased death, disease and injuries from heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts, (iii) increased cardio - respiratory morbidity and mortality associated with ground - level ozone.

When it comes to the health of a pregnant mother or her child, the U.S. has the highest mortality rate among all developed nations.

In the past, the mortality in children was higher than it is now.