Sentences with phrase «human infant mortality»

The BioBag could improve human infant mortality rates and lower the chances of a premature baby developing lung problems or cognitive disorders.

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It has allowed us to understand sanitation which has increased human health and life extending the average life span while increasing infant mortality rates.

Commit this Advent season to educating yourself (or your faith community) about a particular pervasive injustice — mass incarceration, human trafficking, child brides, infant & maternal mortality, violence against women, etc..

As it turned out, of course, Asia more than doubled in size and set off a new industrial revolution whose impact on human welfare has been of revolutionary proportions by virtually any measure: infant mortality, literacy, life expectancy, caloric intake, etc..

If we wish to impact and decrease infant mortality in our state, then the ability to provide human milk for all babies in need is crucial,» said Harley Ginsberg, MD, Section Head of Neonatology and Medical Director of Neonatal Intensive Care at Ochsner Baptist.

Research from the National Coalition for Infant Health shows that micro preemies fed an exclusive human milk diet reduces mortality by 75 % and reduces occurrence of NEC by 77 %.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Other benefits of this early breastfeeding experience include helping the infant feel more secure, reducing infant mortality through the numerous immunological properties of human milk, and encouraging a longer period of breastfeeding.

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While NEC continues to be a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in extreme preterm infants, the increased use of human breast milk and implementation of standardized feeding protocols have helped to reduce its incidence.

Brazil's human milk banking within a breastfeeding strategy has helped reducethe country's infant mortality by 73 % since 1990.

In 1992, in response to epidemiologic reports from Europe and Australia, the AAP recommended that infants be placed for sleep in a nonprone position as a strategy for reducing the risk of SIDS.9 The «Back to Sleep» campaign was initiated in 1994 under the leadership of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommendInfant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommendinfant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommendation.

«If you take every single human and social indicator from maternal mortality to infant mortality to poverty statistics and all that, you will find a wide disparity between the north and the south.

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.

Human beings — who, like hamsters, are also mammals and vertebrates — are remarkably seasonal, Prendergast added, citing a long, astonishing list of universal human experiences that have a seasonal component, including birth, death, suicide, viral infections, mortality from bacterial infections, sleep patterns and sudden infant death syndrome, even though industrial societies buffer humans from contributory facHuman beings — who, like hamsters, are also mammals and vertebrates — are remarkably seasonal, Prendergast added, citing a long, astonishing list of universal human experiences that have a seasonal component, including birth, death, suicide, viral infections, mortality from bacterial infections, sleep patterns and sudden infant death syndrome, even though industrial societies buffer humans from contributory fachuman experiences that have a seasonal component, including birth, death, suicide, viral infections, mortality from bacterial infections, sleep patterns and sudden infant death syndrome, even though industrial societies buffer humans from contributory factors.

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 -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 -Infant Death Data Files from 2007 - 2009.

«A better understanding of development will have important implications for human health: failures in developmental processes that lead to congenital defects are currently the most common cause of infant mortality in the US and Europe.

Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities in the way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.

Humanity has replaced selection - after - birth (infant mortality), which tended to get rid of weaker genes, with selection - before - birth (abortion), which, unless one does a lot of genetic testing, makes the surviving pool of humans potentially more needy — including of performance enhancement.

Finds that unearned income and excess infant mortality in the year after typhoon exposure outnumber immediate damages and death tolls roughly 15 - to - 1, helping to indicate that economic and human losses due to environmental disaster may be an order of magnitude larger than previously thought and that adaptive decision - making may amplify, rather than dampen, disasters» social cost.

Improvements in health care, urban sanitation, domestic hygiene, nutrition, and literacy have resulted in greatly reduced infant / child mortality and have facilitated rapid growth in the human population.

The human cost is also huge — increased infant mortality, deteriorating nutrition, health and educational standards, war - induced famines.

Describing the many ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience deep trauma, in a list «that would surely make the blood of any decent human being run cold,» Parker said Indigenous people continued to die more than a decade earlier than their peers, suffer double the burden of ill health and infant mortality, with unemployment four times higher and median incomes half, and disability for one in three.

President George H. W. Bush creates the interagency White House Task Force to Reduce Infant Mortality with representatives from the Departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Commerce, and the CDC.

This will include an overview of national recommendations from the Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality, the Infant Mortality Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) and the Pew Home Visiting Campaign.