Sentences with phrase «high mortality settings»

In high mortality settings and where access to facility based care is limited, WHO and UNICEF recommend at least two home visits for all home births: the first visit should occur within 24 hours from birth and the second visit on day 3.

Studies have shown that home - based newborn care interventions can prevent 30 — 60 % of newborn deaths in high mortality settings under controlled conditions.

Not exact matches

Living Goods has also noted a couple of ways in which the setting it is working in has changed since the start of the project: bednet coverage is 2 - 3 times higher and the market price of malaria treatment has been reduced.146 Under - 5 mortality in Uganda, according to the World Bank, decreased from 83 per 1,000 live birth in 2009 to 69 in 2012.147

It is also possible that the unique health care system found in the United States — and particularly the lack of integration across birth settings, combined with elevated rates of obstetric intervention — contributes to intrapartum mortality due to delays in timely transfer related to fear of reprisal and / or because some women with higher - risk pregnancies still choose home birth because there are fewer options that support normal physiologic birth available in their local hospitals.

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.

Perinatal mortality was higher with planned out - of - hospital birth than with planned in - hospital birth, but the absolute risk of death was low in both settings.

Even when the signs are detected, hospitalization and life - saving treatment may not be accessible, acceptable or affordable to families in settings with high newborn mortality.

The authors concluded that perinatal mortality was higher with planned out - of - hospital birth than with planned in - hospital birth, but the absolute risk of death was low in both settings.

Currently, due to research results demonstrating high malnutrition and mortality for formula - fed babies in developing countries, the 2006 revised HIV and infant feeding recommendations re-endorse a public health rationale in all settings, as follows:

In some high - income countries, where maternity care is integrated across birth settings, researchers have concluded that there are no significant differences between birth places in morbidity or mortality for newborns [15, 16, 19] and / or that the absolute risks of mortality are extremely low [13, 14].

As set out in a Scottish Government study reported in 2010, the link between socio - economic circumstances and health is well know, and there is an increasing evidence base supporting the hypothesis of a «Scottish Effect», and more specifically a «Glasgow Effect», the terminology used to identify higher levels of mortality and poor health found in Scotland and Glasgow beyond that explained by socio - economic circumstances.

When the adiposity categories were adjusted for the same set of covariates (Table 6), individuals with abdominal obesity had a higher mortality risk (HR, 1.25; 95 % CI, 1.00 - 1.56; P =.05), although this relationship did not persist after further adjustment for fitness (HR, 0.99; 95 % CI, 0.79 - 1.25; P =.95).

Teaching diets to those with the genetic disposition for an eating disorder sets them up to experience the mental illness with the highest mortality rate.

«We also present a set of global vulnerability drivers that are known with high confidence: (1) droughts eventually occur everywhere; (2) warming produces hotter droughts; (3) atmospheric moisture demand increases nonlinearly with temperature during drought; (4) mortality can occur faster in hotter drought, consistent with fundamental physiology; (5) shorter droughts occur more frequently than longer droughts and can become lethal under warming, increasing the frequency of lethal drought nonlinearly; and (6) mortality happens rapidly relative to growth intervals needed for forest recovery.

Because premiums remain level while mortality costs increase at later ages, the insurer must set premiums in the early years high enough to pre-fund the excess of mortality costs over premiums in the later years.