Sentences with phrase «many avoidable deaths»

The outrage and anger here is generally provoked by avoidable deaths — and personally I would not dispute that they can ALSO happen in hospitals, but are much less likely to.

You're doing a great job stigmatising yourself - if, as you appear to suggest it is «chilling out» to advocate letting nature take its course when its course is avoidable death and suffering, then that's a wrap, really.

Researchers reported high overall perinatal mortality in a study of home birth in Australia, 35 qualifying that low risk home births in Australia had good outcomes but that high risk births gave rise to a high rate of avoidable death at home.36 Two prospective studies in North America found positive outcomes for home birth, 23 24 but the studies were not of sufficient size to provide relatively stable perinatal death rates.

Who will hope for a good outcome, because the thought of someone that smug finding out through the avoidable death of an infant just how wrong he is is unbearable.

Campaign for Safer Births: working to improve NHS Maternity Services in order to reduce the avoidable deaths and injuries of babies and others during labour

Dr T's tone is not always sweet, but then she is often talking about challenging and infuriating topics, for example avoidable deaths at home birth.

Latest smear campaign against homebirth from Amer J ObGyn contributes to the wrongful and avoidable death of at least 100 mothers every year from unnecessary C - sections.

Figures obtained by Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat MP, show that the overall number of «serious incidents» — involving unexpected or avoidable deaths, serious harm, injury and abuse — has climbed 34 % to 8,139 a year.

«With a recent government funded study showing low compliance with existing regulations in England on lead shot use, it's not surprising unacceptable numbers of wildfowl are still dying avoidable deaths from lead poisoning,» the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds» director of conservation Martin Harper said.

The Council Conclusions stress that harmful use of alcohol is recognised as an important risk factor in the need to reduce the burden of alcohol - related avoidable deaths, chronic diseases, injuries, violence, health inequalities and other social consequences to third parties.

«That a judge feels he must even raise the issue of soldiers» human rights is a damning indictment of all the avoidable deaths that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan due to faulty or unavailable kit,» he said.

Doctors accused the health secretary of making «political capital» out of patient deaths after briefings on the Keogh report into failures at 14 hospitals focused on 13,000 avoidable deaths despite the report discouraging that view.

«However tempting it may be, it is clinically meaningless and academically reckless to use such statistical measures to quantify actual numbers of avoidable deaths,» the report found.

In her speech to donors, the First lady said that considering the current situation at KATH where disturbing number of avoidable deaths of mothers and babies are recorded partly due to inadequate facilities to cater for them, a modern facility to cater for five times the current number will be a major life saving measure to «bring hope not only to families in Ashanti, but also those in the Bono - Ahafo, the three Northern Regions and parts of the Central and Western Regions, who are served by Komfo Anokye Hospital.»

The First Lady noted that «being a Ghanaian means being our brother's keeper as well as taking the initiative to make things happen to correct the wrong» therefore many Ghanaians like herself have taken to various activities to stem the tide of avoidable deaths at KATH.

We have put in place an enduring healthcare delivery system capable and has been protecting all residents of Osun from avoidable deaths due to emergencies, disease conditions or nutritional deficiencies.

The governor said, «This will put an end to the cases of avoidable deaths arising from wrong diagnosis since accurate diagnosis is the key to successful management of any ailment.»

There is no doubt that it was the same protests by the congregants that eventually culminated in this avoidable deaths caused by stampede», he said.

In this study we found that mental ill health was linked with 45,000 missed screens which potentially could account for 90 avoidable deaths per annum in the UK alone.

A report released last week by Oxfam and Save the Children argued that the international relief effort was far too slow to get going, leading to thousands of avoidable deaths.

More than a quarter of the avoidable deaths in the developing world are already caused by TB, a disease that kills 3 million people a year — making it a bigger killer even than malaria.

Unless this changes quickly, avoidable deaths and disability resulting from hypertension are set to soar.

It clearly harms the environment, but have bans on its use led to millions of avoidable deaths?

suggest that some women might prefer to chance an avoidable death for a reduced chance of being recalled for a few extra pictures or an ultrasound,» he said.

It took me a while to get back to the temple, and almost every time I did, it became my final stopping point due to a sudden, avoidable death.

Those regrets pile up every day in the thousands of avoidable deaths of poor people from the lack of simple resources like clean water and energy options.

In a new Environmental Progress report, the «The High Cost of Fear,» we calculate a minimum impact of $ 10 billion per year, thousands of avoidable deaths from air pollution, and failure to achieve South Korea's Paris climate commitments.

After 25 years of close to a trillion dollars of treasure being expended, thousands of avoidable deaths from hypothermia related health problems amongst the elderly, the destruction of entire industries and large parts of some national economies, science, very expensive science at that has been sent down an innumerable number of dead end paths and rabbit holes in pursuit of the unpredictable non existent global warming and it's totally failed predictions of catastrophes always still to come but which never do.

Using them in the context of serious real world problems like poverty and avoidable death invites confusion.

Has there been a significant number of post - operative complications, like infections, haemorrhages, CSF leaks, nerve damage, or avoidable deaths?

Of course, there are risks involved with childbirth, but sadly, sometimes it's negligence that has led to an avoidable death or injury.»

Surely, in both cases, reaching such a decision would accord too much emphasis to paternalism, and in the latter effectively condemn several people, including the equally desperate recipient, to an untimely avoidable death.

Avoidable death rates among the Maori, for example, are estimated to be almost double those of Europeans or other New Zealanders.3 Many indigenous people have one or more of a complex set of interlocking chronic diseases from a comparatively early age.9 Although these diseases are diagnosable and treatable, at least some of this avoidable mortality remains underdiagnosed and undertreated.

Rates of avoidable deaths among indigenous people tend to be much higher than for non-indigenous people.

There are about 2,000 annual avoidable Aboriginal deaths out of a population about 670,000 Indigenous Australians (an avoidable death rate as a percentage of population of 0.4 % pa, similar to that in impoverished South Asia; it was 1.8 % pa in 2000, twice that in sub-Saharan Africa).

Aborigines are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy (see Gideon Polya, «Film Review: «Utopia» By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of Indigenous Australians By Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 14 March, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140314.htm; Gideon Polya, «Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm; «Aboriginal Genocide»: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/; MacRae A, Thomson N, Anomie, Burns J, Catto M, Gray C, Levitan L, McLoughlin N, Potter C, Ride K, Stumpers S, Trzesinski A, Urquhart B (2013).

Aboriginal health is clearly much lower than it could be, but the problem is one of adult mortality, in addition to avoidable deaths among young children.

Not exact matches

Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University of Canberra and the University of Queensland, states that «the potential human health consequences of discouraging the use of pyriproxyfen in drinking water storage and other mosquito - reduction programs is catastrophic with potential deaths and serious disease from otherwise avoidable malaria, dengue and other mosquito - borne diseases numbered in at least the hundreds of thousands.»

But consumers should also keep in mind that conditions contributing to an older relative's early death are likely to be more treatable now, or avoidable if we make different choices (say, not smoking or by being more active).

Many predominantly RCC populations are exactly the kind of populations where promiscuity is not an easily nor immediately attainable realistically and therefore the unrealistic goal regarding contraception use is a very realistically avoidable cause of much suffering, disease and death.

«According to former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop, of the 2.4 million deaths that occur in the United States each year, 75 % are the result of avoidable nutritional factor diseases.»

The death of these unfortunate animals was wholly avoidable.

Although clinically significant hyponatremia is rare (1 %)(7), the evidence is clear: every single death from EAH is avoidable.

Although it appears that the preventable newborn deaths at home and hospital birth balance out, homebirth is clearly safer when you take into consideration the risk of maternal death that 20 % of low risk U.S. women face as a result of avoidable cesareans which became necessary because they went to hospital.

A lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life contributes to over a million avoidable child deaths each year.

As tobacco use continued to cause avoidable misery, addiction, disease and early deaths, the smoking rate among adults and children fell to unprecedented lows.

New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said, «Far too many women lose their lives due to avoidable complications during pregnancy and these deaths are unacceptably high in African - American communities.

She notes a further 2,800 avoidable patient deaths have been registered at 14 other NHS trusts and calls on Nicholson to quit given his previous role as chief executive of West Midlands Strategic Health Authority.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government directly responsible for the avoidable and painful death of Dr. Ndukwu...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government directly responsible for the avoidable and painful death of Dr. Ndukwu Chizaram of the Federal Medical Center, Umuahia, Abia state.