Sentences with phrase «high maternal child»

Some of the factors that might have contributed to high maternal child mortality in rural Meteitei include:

Not exact matches

Greater maternal sensitivity and higher socioeconomic status correlated with better behavior in children, although they did not erase the negative effects of long hours in child care.

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

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.

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

General www.waimh.org World Association of Infant Mental Health www.zerotothree.org Zero - to - Three www.aap.org American Academy of Pediatrics www.civitas.org/index.html High quality parenting resources www.surestart.gov.uk United Kingdom's government website on early development www.mchlibrary.info Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University www.mi-aimh.org Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health www.ounceofprevention.org High - powered service / advocacy organization for young children www.parentsasteachers.org www.talaris.org Talaris institute does education for parents and professionals about young children

A high degree of maternal and child health is at the top of the list of criteria for achieving happiness.

From the abstract: Maternal reports of food avoidance eating behaviours were associated with an emotional child temperament, high levels of maternal feeding control, using food for behaviour regulation, and low encouragement of a balanced and varied foodMaternal reports of food avoidance eating behaviours were associated with an emotional child temperament, high levels of maternal feeding control, using food for behaviour regulation, and low encouragement of a balanced and varied foodmaternal feeding control, using food for behaviour regulation, and low encouragement of a balanced and varied food intake.

For instance, in a study of American children (aged 9 - 11 years), researchers found that kids with secure attachment relationships — and greater levels of maternal support — showed «higher levels of positive mood, more constructive coping, and better regulation of emotion in the classroom.»

If our findings reflected such a maternal genotype effect, we should find that, among breastfeeding mothers, rs174575 C - carrying mothers have children with higher IQs than GG mothers.

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.

Mean verbal IQ scores of children in the lowest maternal education category in the intervention were also substantially higher than those of their counterparts in the control group.

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

In spring 2010, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Administration for Children announced the availability of funds for the Affordable Care Act Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.39 The program emphasizes and supports successful implementation of high - quality home visiting programs that have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness as defined in the legislation.

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

It wasn't because I wanted to travel the world or be a high - powered career woman; I just didn't have that maternal «I need to bear children» feeling.

Researchers observed a similar correlation between fussy eating and maternal depression: Women who experienced more depression before and after birth had children who scored higher on the fussy eating scale as well.

Stratifying by maternal postpartum fish intake (< 2 vs ≥ 2 servings per week), the relationship between breastfeeding duration and the WRAVMA score at age 3 years seemed stronger in children of women with higher vs lower fish intake (Table 6), but the interaction was not statistically significant (P =.16 for interaction).

She has had the opportunity to explore child birth from different perspectives by: developing and teaching Prenatal Yoga classes, caring for pregnant social high risk and new immigrant women at the Northeast Health Centre, and by working in Nunavut as a Maternal Newborn Health Services Consultant for the Government of Nunavut.

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 SurveMaternal 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 Survematernal 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 Survematernal 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).

«With longevity and the ability to bear children at an older age associated with longer telomere length, this study suggests that a higher maternal age of successful child bearing may be a marker of healthy aging,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.

In this study, the proportion of women in the longest telomere tertile was higher for women in the fourth quartile of maternal age at the birth of their last child than in the first quartile (35.7 % vs 20.2 %).

«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.

The positive impact of sustained high levels of maternal responsivity from toddlerhood through middle childhood was true even for children with more autistic symptoms and lower nonverbal cognitive development levels.

«Obesity and Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise and there is the argument that it is related to lifestyle and availability of high calorie foods and reduced physical activity, but our study has found that maternal antidepressant use may also be a contributing factor to the obesity and diabetes epidemic,» said the study's senior investigator Alison Holloway, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McMaster University.

«High maternal stress causes paternal stress, and high maternal stress decreases the child's ability to benefit from treatment,» she sHigh maternal stress causes paternal stress, and high maternal stress decreases the child's ability to benefit from treatment,» she shigh maternal stress decreases the child's ability to benefit from treatment,» she said.

If CRH needs to be low to see maternal protection of offspring, as our work suggests, Gammie remarks, then it explains why moms with high postpartum depression and high CRH not only may neglect, but also may abuse, their children.

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.

Covariates included the child's sex, calendar conception year (categorical variable), gestational age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)(BMI < 18.5 = underweight; 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 = normal weight; 25 ≤ BMI < 30 = overweight; BMI ≥ 30 = obese), maternal age at delivery (younger than 20, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, and ≥ 35 years), maternal education at delivery (≤ high school graduate, some college education, college graduate, postgraduate, or unknown), maternal race / ethnicity (Asian, black, white, or other), and gestational diabetes (yes / no).

A recent study of almost 9,000 mom - child pairs showed that maternal sugar intake is associated with a higher risk of allergies and asthma in offspring.

23,020) has shown that unhealthy maternal and early postnatal dietary patterns (for example, processed and refined foods, high - sugar beverages, high - sodium snacks) elevate the risk of behavioral and emotional problems in children [13].

While in children a high consumption of sugar - sweetened beverages [5 — 7] and fruit juice [7, 8] has been linked to asthma, and particularly atopic asthma [7], the relation between total maternal consumption of free sugar during pregnancy and respiratory and atopic outcomes in the offspring has not been studied.

Higher maternal caffeine consumption during pregnancy was independently associated with a reduced risk of peer problems in the children: the adjusted odds ratios (95 % confidence intervals) in the first, second, third, and fourth quartiles of maternal caffeine consumption during pregnancy were 1 (reference), 0.61 (0.35 — 1.06), 0.52 (0.29 — 0.91), and 0.51 (0.28 — 0.91), respectively (P for trend = 0.01).

Secretary Duncan, in trying to belittle their maternal opposition, went on to say that these moms oppose the higher standards because «all of a sudden their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

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Children born in high - risk environments (defined by low income, young parental age, single parents and low maternal education) face significant barriers to healthy development and learning.

If its goal of providing family planning services to 120 million more women in the developing world is met, the payoff would be enormous at multiple levels: lower maternal and child mortality, better health, higher educational attainment, poverty reduction, greater food and water security.

It has also been found that among children with GD, the rate of maternal psychopathology, particularly depression and bipolar disorder is «high by any standard.»

This has been identified to be a problem that disproportionately affects Indigenous young people who have very high levels of mobility, including across state borders, often due to cultural reasons.6 Of the 917 children who were completely excluded from the analysis, based on an attendance rate of less than 30 %, 81 % were Indigenous and 45 % had a mother with a maternal alcohol use diagnosis.

Subgroup analyses: We will examine whether there is evidence that the intervention effect is modified for subgroups within the trial participants using tests of interaction between intervention and child and family factors as follows: parity (first - born vs other), antenatal risks (2 vs 3 or more risk factors at screening), maternal mental health at baseline (high vs low score) 18, 62, 63 and self - efficacy at baseline (poor vs normal mastery) 35 using the regression models described above with additional terms for interaction between subgroup and trial arm.

«Two other studies similarly found joint physical custody to be more beneficial to children and adolescents than sole maternal custody along multiple dimensions when conflict was low, but these benefits were suppressed by high levels of conflict (Lee, 2002; Maccoby & Mnookin, 1992).»

This study directly contrasts with the finding of Rhee et al13 of a strong association between child BMI status and the maternal authoritarian parenting style (characterized by high control, as well as low warmth and sensitivity).

In view of the high worldwide prevalence of (childhood) obesity and associated metabolic problems, this close link between maternal and child metabolic health and the resulting vicious cycle are very relevant.33 34 Because of the deleterious impact of GDM and lifestyle during pregnancy on the health of the mother and her offspring, it is crucial to intervene during the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal period.

Similarly ACE information relied on maternal reports and we used relatively high thresholds for the standardized scales assessing child abusive behavior, both of which could have underestimated ACEs.

A high proportion of children in the United States are overweight, suffer from food insecurity, and live in households facing maternal stressors.

Testing the hypothesis that certain maternal feeding behaviors increase children's adiposity is difficult because the suspect feeding behaviors tend to cluster within low - income and minority populations, which have a higher risk of childhood obesity (22, 23).

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

Although these 2 studies show the effectiveness of nurse home visitation in improving child and maternal outcomes among high risk families, the findings can not be generalised to populations without these risk factors.