Sentences with phrase «maternal mortality data»

Infant mortality data is gathered differently than maternal mortality data and the difference is quite relevant.

You seem to be confusing infant data with maternal mortality data.

Not exact matches

With money from Merck for Mothers, a charitable initiative created by the pharmaceutical giant, the project has funded a web portal that provides information on starting and improving review committees and a tool, the Maternal Mortality Review Information Application, that shows jurisdictions how to standardize data collection from review panels so that it's comparable from one state to the next.

State Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R - Lehigh, introduced the bill last October after doctors from his district showed him grim data on rising maternal mortality rates in the nation and the state.

«BRAC seeks to experiment on improving quality at local health facilities: Data show that obstetrical care at public facilities in Uganda is very weak, leading to high maternal mortality and risks to newborns.

Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

Except that maternal mortality rates are now so low in nearly any developed countries that you couldn't expect to see a statistically significant difference even in nationwide data.

I wonder maternal mortality among low risk women is just so rare that there weren't any in the data that she looked at?

To address this issue WHO is today launching two new tools to help countries improve their data on stillbirths and neonatal deaths as well as a report on the global status of implementation of maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR), a key strategy for reducing preventable maternal mortality.

A careful review of the data suggests that changes in the way that maternal mortality is assessed may be leading to a spurious «increase» in maternal mortality.

al. «Estimates of maternal mortality worldwide between 1990 and 2005: an assessment of available data,» The Lancet, (August 13, 2007) 370, 1311 - 1319.

Another study from Denmark, which was based on prospective data about maternal alcohol use, also found a significant relationship between maternal binge drinking and postneonatal infant mortality, including SIDS.219

The authors used other birth - certificate data on maternal coexisting conditions to adjust for high - risk conditions and performed a propensity - score analysis to account for the perinatal mortality associated with planned out - of - hospital birth versus hospital birth.

««By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.»

Based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States maternal mortality ratio is three to four times higher than that of most other developed nations.

According to the authors, «Many infections that predominate in low - income countries, such as malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and rickettsiosis, fail to be counted in the causes of maternal and neonatal mortality in part due to the difficulty of making the diagnosis and weakness in data collecting systems.

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.

«By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.

The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing maternal and new - born mortality and discuss the learning and experiential outcomes for UK health care professionals acting as long term volunteers in low resource settings.

New data on maternal mortality looks like encouraging news but is hardly cause for celebration.

In the United Kingdom, IMD incidence and mortality are socially patterned, with IMD incidence in the most deprived quintile being twice that of the most affluent quintile.10 In New Zealand, significantly higher rates of IMD have been reported in Maori (relative risk = 2.2) and Pacific Islander people (relative risk = 3.8) when compared with the European population.11 Aboriginal people are the most disadvantaged group in Australia.12 Two important risk factors associated with increased risk of IMD are more common among Aboriginal people, namely having a smoker among close contacts, including maternal smoking, and sharing a bedroom.13 — 15 It is not possible to explore the causal interaction of these factors from notifiable disease data.