Sentences with phrase «mortality rate declined»

The infant mortality rate declined from 6 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2008 to 5 in 2009.

With advances in medical technology, the infant mortality rate declined as more babies were born in hospitals, which encouraged still more women to choose hospitals as the preferred place to deliver.

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.

For hemorrhagic stroke, the mortality rates declined slightly from 44.7 % in 1988 to 39.3 % in 2008.

One thing history has taught us is that populations and societies shift to fewer births, once they see infant mortality rates decline.

A new study shows that during the Great Recession, mortality rates declined faster in areas where the unemployment grew.

Davis, Knappenberger et al found that heat - related mortality has been declining significantly, by a factor of 4 from the 1960s to 1990s: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1241712/ «Heat - related mortality rates declined significantly over time in 19 of the 28 cities.

Not exact matches

Consider, for example, the other seven MDG objectives, such as a proposed 75 % improvement in maternal health outcomes, to a 66 % decline in mortality rates for children under the age of five.

The BRIC's worst economic performer thus far in 2009, Russia is overly reliant on energy, has a declining and aging population with Third World mortality rates and an authoritarian government too willing to intervene in its economy to the detriment of investors.

The damage includes factors like a rise in mortality rates as health and safety systems fail, a decline in trade as ports shut down and transportation chaos as infrastructure collapses.

, the British medical historian Thomas McKeown carefully chronicles the decline in mortality in England and Wales over much of the 19th and 20th centuries — charting death rates for infectious diseases ranging from diphtheria to pneumonia.

The mortality rate only started to decline when antibiotics were invented, and aseptic routine implemented.

Volk's evidence suggests is that as the U.S.'s breastfeeding rates decline, infant mortality will increase.

As the overall rate of under - five mortality has declined, the proportion of neonatal deaths (during the first month of life) comprises an increasing proportion of all child deaths.

Since then, the C - section rate has continued to rise ever faster, but neonatal mortality, although continuing, has declined at ever slower 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.

[7] Governments in Europe started to worry about the decline of the workforce because of the high mortality rates among newborns.

During the past 3 decades, changes in water supply, sanitation, and personal hygiene are believed to have contributed to a decline in the mortality rate in developing countries.

What can be done: Researchers believe that the uptick in the U.S. maternal mortality rate is due mainly to three factors: a decline in overall health, including increased rates of obesity and cardiovascular disease, inadequate prenatal care, and inadequate postpartum care.

Despite a 56 % decrease in the national incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) from 1.2 deaths per 1000 live births in 19921 to 0.53 death per 1000 live births in 2003,2 SIDS continues to be the leading cause of postneonatal mortality in the United States.3 The decreased rate of SIDS is largely attributed to the increased use of the supine sleep position after the introduction of the «Back to Sleep» campaign in 1994.4 - 7 More recently, it has been suggested that the decrease in the SIDS rate has leveled off coincident with a plateau in the uptake of the supine sleep position.8 Although caretakers should continue to be encouraged to place infants on their backs to sleep, other potentially modifiable risk factors in the sleep environment should be examined to promote further decline in the rate of SIDS.

Evidence has demonstrated however, that this recommendation has only led to a decline in women who plan vaginal births after cesareans, but no improvement in neonatal or maternal mortality rates (Zweifler and colleagues, 2006).

Although SIDS rates have declined by more than 50 % since the early 1990s, SIDS remains the third - leading cause of infant mortality and the leading cause of postneonatal mortality (28 days to 1 year of age).

SIDS mortality rates, similar to other causes of infant mortality, have notable racial and ethnic disparities (Fig 2).17 Despite the decline in SIDS in all races and ethnicities, the rate of SIDS in non-Hispanic black (99 per 100 000 live births) and American Indian / Alaska Native (112 per 100 000 live births) infants was double that of non-Hispanic white infants (55 per 100 000 live births) in 2005 (Fig 2).

In FY2014, CMS will hold a hospital accountable if its 30 - day readmission rate declines while its 30 - day mortality increases.

Other factors include declining mortality rates and increasing urbanization.

Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.

Under the strictest pathway (RCP 2.6), which assumes an early peak of greenhouse gas emissions which then decline substantially, the potential net increases in mortality rates at the end of the century be minimal (between -0.4 % and +0.6 %) in all the regions included in this study, highlighting the benefits of the implementation of mitigation policies.

Industrialized societies are experiencing a decline in fertility rates that exceeds the drop in mortality rates.

Researchers noted that a decline in stroke incidence and mortality rates in most high - income countries, primarily in women, occurred simultaneously with a general increase in attained adult height.

Cancer epidemiologist John Bailar of the University of Chicago points out that overall cancer mortality rates in the United States actually rose from 1971 until the early 1990s before declining slightly over the last decade, predominantly because of a decrease in the number of male smokers.

«It means that treatments and preventions are working,» says Valerie Beral at the University of Oxford, adding that an influential factor in declining mortality rates has been people giving up smoking.

Because prior studies suggesting a decrease in severe sepsis mortality rates used only billing codes from administrative data, it was thought that billing code changes may be responsible for the mortality decline.

After many years of a steady drop in the infant mortality rate in the U.S. the rate of decline has abruptly slowed.

It was widely believed that this «population bomb ``, a product of drastically reduced mortality rates and the absence of a corresponding decline in the birth rate, would eventually lead to an overcrowded planet, with resources outstripped and humanity doomed.

While deaths from infectious diseases have been steadily declining as a result of research and medical intervention, preterm birth has remained a much more difficult problem, say the authors of a recent study that collated child mortality rates and their associated causes between 2000 and 2013.

«A decline in brachytherapy utilization is associated with a higher rate of mortality in cervical cancer, so there's a direct relationship.»

According to the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, the annual mortality rate for end - stage renal disease rose from 10,478 in 1980 to 90,118 in 2009, though it has declined somewhat in recent years.

Mills» group previously found that winter white snowshoe hares confronting snowless ground have higher mortality rates that could drive massive population declines as snow duration continues to decrease.

«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.»

Although CVD mortality has continued to decline during the past 40 years, the rates of decline varied significantly among the states.

Lung cancer mortality rates among young women (30 - 49 years) were stable or declining in 47 of the 52 populations examined.

Since the establishment of the first US neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in 1960,1 the neonatal mortality rate has fallen more than 4-fold, from 18.73 per 1000 live births to 4.04 per 1000 live births in 2012.2 Much of this decline can be attributed to the highly specialized care provided to premature and sick infants by neonatologists and multidisciplinary teams working in NICUs.3, 4

«What we're finding is the cancer mortality rates among some of the most vulnerable populations of New Jersey, which are children, has been declining over time, and it's declined significantly,» said Nan Stroup, director of the State Cancer Registry and an associate professor at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

While overall mortality rates of CHD have been declining in the U.S., the number of CHD deaths in the diabetic population has escalated as the prevalence of the disease has increased.

Since the advent of PSA screening, the incidence of patients presenting with advanced prostate cancer has declined remarkably and death rates from prostate cancer as reported in the National Cancer Database have declined at the rate of 1 % per year since 1990.56 Other data indicate similar declines in prostate cancer related mortality in the US.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

In the absence of mortality threat, growth rates of damselflies increased with warming until about 23.5 °C and then began to decline, a typical unimodal response to changes in temperature.

A recent report has shown that rapid declines in the rate of mortality from coronary heart disease in Eastern Europe are associated with increased consumption of α - linolenic acid (31).

7 maturities last year was in line with TLI's 3 year average, and represents an accelerating mortality rate (as the total number of policies held has been steadily declining).

Population declines of other small mammal populations may also be driven by juvenile mortality and thus assessing and managing mortality rates within this age classes may assist in conserving small mammal species.