Sentences with phrase «higher infant mortality»

Historically, the higher the infant mortality rate, the larger the family size people try to maintain.

The countries with the lowest quality of life have more children in their population and also a higher infant mortality rate.

The city has consistently maintained higher infant mortality rates than the state, but the disparities in infant mortality appear to have grown over the past two years for which data was available — 2013 and 2014.

It also created higher infant mortality, reduced our stature, and caused iron deficiency, bone disorders, chronic anemia, poor dental health, and a shorter lifespan!

There are substantial differences in obstetric care provided to First Nations women compared with women in the general population, and these differences may contribute to higher infant mortality in First Nations populations, according to research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Heath campaigners say that for decades, formula has consistently proven to be less healthy than breastfeeding - boosting the risk of diabetes, infections and other medical problems, and, when used exclusively, contributes to 21 percent higher infant mortality.

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies were common in infants years ago as were illness and higher infant mortality rates.

Some of those factors included a decline in birth rates corresponding with higher infant mortality rates, the discovery of vaccines, and a rise in hospital births.

This is partly the result of higher infant mortality rates.

This is a higher infant mortality rate than Cuba.

Here's one without cancer, there's one without Bach, over there's one with a higher infant mortality rate, and so on; this is the worst sort of anthropomorphism.

The consequences of this national travesty are well documented — postpartum depression, higher infant mortality and illness and persistent educational and economic disadvantages.

As a country we have the highest infant mortality rate in ALL the developed countries.

Or one can be so concerned with his own comfort and prosperity and the demands of his business, family, or other immediate circle that he can be quite obtuse to the fact that in half of the world's population, there are chronic hunger and malnutrition, high infant mortality, and a much shorter life span than in opulent America.

In fact, the overwhelming majority of people in the world were poor, with high infant mortality and short life expectancy.

Especially not in the U.S., which has one of the highest infant mortality rates of the developed world.

Drop - side cribs should be avoided and due to their high infant mortality rate, they are actually banned by the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The high infant mortality rate among black infants is mostly to their being disproportionately born too small, too sick or too soon.

Did you know Haiti has the highest infant mortality rate in the Western Hemisphere?

Ohio has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the country, and the number of babies dying from sleep - related causes has actually increased in recent years.

During the 1930s, Finland had very high infant mortality rates.

Dana was more than a student, being among the first scientists to challenge formula companies on the link among formula use and high infant mortality in developing countries.

Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world, in part fueled by malnutrition.

Doctors and childcare experts still considered breastfeeding best, no doubt in part because of the high infant mortality rates occurring in the burgeoning cities that had limited access to fresh, clean cow's milk.

«Business of Being Born»: «While the United States has perhaps the most advanced health care system in the world, it also has the second - highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized nation.»

The Colonial Period was marked by high infant mortality rates.

• In the 152 countries with high infant mortality and malnutrition rates as described by UNICEF, we apply the respective national laws and regulations or the WHO Code, whichever is stricter

TUH is located in North Philadelphia, an area that has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the United States with many babies born into poverty and to young mothers who do not have adequate resources to care for a newborn.

Since then she has worked to eliminate the high infant mortality rate for babies of color, through advocacy and policy.

Shafia M. Monroe, LM became a homebirth midwife in 1978, after learning of the high infant mortality rate in her hometown, Boston, MA.

Union Councils in a rural, resource - poor district in the northwest province of Pakistan with high infant mortality

We have a really high infant mortality rate due to Asthma.

The average was skewed by high infant mortality.

A big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.

It isn't true that everyone died young back then, either — high infant mortality can produce a low average life expectancy for a population, even if many people live to a ripe old age.

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

In Third World communities that have come into contact with the West, vitamin - A deficiencies are widespread and contribute to high infant mortality, blindness, stunting, bone deformities and susceptibility to infection.10 These occur even in communities that have access to plentiful carotenes in vegetables and fruits.

In third world communities that have come into contact with the West, vitamin A deficiencies are widespread and contribute to high infant mortality, blindness, stunting, bone deformities and susceptibility to infection.4 These occur even in communities that have access to plentiful carotenes in vegetables and fruits.

Their life expectancy is statistically drawn down to to high infant mortality but it is noted in another study on them that they have very low levels of cholesterol, no obesity and no age related serum rise in cholesterol.

But black people were 40 percent more likely to develop dementia if they'd been born in a state with high infant mortality.

So they looked at people who'd been born in states with high infant mortality rates — an indicator of social problems like poverty and limited access to medical care.

Even Sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the highest infant mortality rates, shows improvements in some of its indicators.

They appear to have had some of the problems shared by Mayas and other pre-industrial societies such as high infant mortality.

As is common with many countries as they industrialize, the usual plagues of poverty — infectious diseases and high infant mortality — have given way to diseases more often associated with affluence, such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer.While this might be expected in China's richer cities, where bicycles are fast being traded in for cars and meat consumption is climbing, it also holds true in rural areas.

Marc Morano: But when you don't need to have as many kids because they don't survive a childhood you tend to have less kids if you're not thinking I need to have X amount because high infant mortality rates, which is what we're seeing around the world which are...

The federal Healthy Start initiative, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) addresses racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes by supporting projects in communities that experience high infant mortality rates.

Not exact matches

But life expectancy in Sweden is about three years higher than that of the U.S. Infant mortality is half the U.S. level, and less than a third the rate in Mississippi.

As an industrialized nation, we have a shockingly high incidence of infant mortality and maternal death.

Like most Latin American nations, Colombia is plagued by the socioeconomic and political conditions which make revolutionary change a real possibility: vast unemployment, runaway inflation, a high degree of infant mortality, large - scale malnutrition.

Life expectancy was low because infant mortality was unusually high and because the lack of antibiotics.