Outside of Europe, the UK has
a higher child mortality rate than Australia, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.
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).
Water - borne disease is a key cause of
high child mortality rates in many developing countries.
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.
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-...]
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.
High - dose vitamin A supplementation programs improve child survival in settings where under - 5 mortality and vitamin A deficiency rates are h
High - dose vitamin A supplementation programs improve
child survival in settings where under - 5
mortality and vitamin A deficiency
rates are
highhigh.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Acute diarrhea is associated with
high rates of
mortality among
children in developing countries [60].
Among various food items, cow's milk and cheese had the
highest correlation with incidence and
mortality rate of these cancers»
Children are at high risk «Among the exposure of humans, especially prepubertal children, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in c
Children are at
high risk «Among the exposure of humans, especially prepubertal
children, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in c
children, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in
childrenchildren.
The landlocked nation faces extreme development challenges, including an adult HIV prevalence
rate of 10 per cent, and very
high levels of infant and
child mortality.
Tom Vitaglione, a senior fellow with the
child advocacy group N.C. Child, said the state had been making progress in reducing infant mortality, building up early education programs and increasing high school graduation r
child advocacy group N.C.
Child, said the state had been making progress in reducing infant mortality, building up early education programs and increasing high school graduation r
Child, said the state had been making progress in reducing infant
mortality, building up early education programs and increasing
high school graduation
rates.
The countries with the lowest quality of life have more
children in their population and also a
higher infant
mortality rate.
In Sub Sahara regions they have the
highest rate of Infant
mortality and by 2020 the number of malnourished
children will increase under all scenarios, rising as
high as 55 million, as hardship and poverty increases.
The authors note that «in 2004, seven of the 10 countries with the
highest mortality rates in
children under 5 were conflict or immediate post-conflict societies.»
As you all are aware that during the first 5 years of
child which have very
high risk, India is having very
high mortality rates and new diseases outbreak keep happening in oversaturated urban indian cities with poor healthcare facilities.
This program reduced the
high mortality rate of inner - city infants from summer diarrhea when previous efforts of private agencies had failed.5 In the late 20th century, as funding for public health nurses has declined relative to the need, home - visitation programs have focused on families with special problems such as premature or low - birth - weight infants,
children with developmental delay, teenage parents, and families at risk for
child abuse or neglect.6
Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal
children and adolescents experience
higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide
rates that are several times
higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These
high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the
high rates of premature
mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.
Puerto Rican
children 1 to 4 years of age were found to have a
higher crude
mortality rate than their white counterparts (Table 3).
It currently serves families in approximately one - third of counties with
high rates of infant
mortality,
children living in poverty, low - weight births, and teen births.
Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3
mortality rates are
higher among Aboriginal
children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the
high birth
rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that
children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11