Sentences with phrase «mortality weighted rate»

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Very obese people do have higher rates of mortality than average - weight individuals.

Until women and their families start expecting respect and look at themselves as the main player in childbirth we will continue to have higher maternal mortality rates than 33 other countries (according to WHO) and higher low birth weight rates than 23 other countries.

The categorisation of a country as developing or developed is subject to objective criteria, such as infant mortality rate, adult literacy rate, Gross National Income per capita, percentage of infants with low birth weight, percentage of population using improved water sources and percentage of population urbanised.

I pulled neonatal mortality rates from the Wonder Database, searching for criteria that matches the MANA study as closely as possible (White women, Singles and twins, 37 weeks and above, Birth weight of 2500 grams or more, Live birth through 27 days, Years 2004 - 2009; it includes everything else: all ages, all education levels, all marital statuses, etc).

In 2001, 70 % of mothers left the hospital breastfeeding, and 33 % were still breastfeeding at 6 months.25 If we assume that the risk structure has not changed as the overall rates have fallen, then the overall postneonatal mortality rate, a weighted average of the rate among those who were breastfed and those who were not, consists of 70 % of children who are breastfed when they leave the hospital and who have a rate of 2.1 per 1000, and 30 % of children who are not breastfed and have a rate of 2.7.

Even after the overwhelming evidence that mortality rates are more a function of fitness levels than body mass levels, it's still important to keep in mind the many intangible benefits of being at a «healthy» weight.

Dr. Patrick Quillin points out most of the scientific literature shows that weight loss drastically increases the mortality rate for most types of cancer, while also lowering the response to chemotherapy.

Despite these positives, her healthcare provider is very concerned about her weight loss citing articles and studies that show lower mortality rates for moderately overweight elderly.

I've seen fascinating efforts lately to use new software and graphics tools to visualize sets of data ranging from flights over the United States in a 24 - hour period to patterns of obesity onset and weight loss in the Framingham heart study to work charting relationships between child mortality, income and fertility rates.

In conclusion, the new Samanta et al. study lends further weight to the emerging picture of the impact of the 2005 drought: that tree growth was relatively unaffected, but tree mortality increased, contributing temporarily to accelerating the rate of climate change, rather than as usual reducing it, via additions of carbon to the atmosphere from the dead trees.

A rate class is an assigned risk valuation given to a policy based on a variety of mortality risk factors including, but not limited to, health, gender, age, weight, height, and tobacco use.

A rate class is a calculation given to a policy based on a variety of mortality risk factors including, but not limited to, health, gender, age, weight, height and tobacco use.

, hazardous hobbies / activities such as hang gliding or scuba diving, international travel, your height and weight, and occupation (if you have a dangerous job or one with a higher - than - average mortality rate) can also affect the amount you'll pay.

The mortality rate of a person who is considered to be morbidly obese based on their BMI is twice as high as that of a person in the normal weight range.

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This program reduced the high mortality rate of inner - city infants from summer diarrhea when previous efforts of private agencies had failed.5 In the late 20th century, as funding for public health nurses has declined relative to the need, home - visitation programs have focused on families with special problems such as premature or low - birth - weight infants, children with developmental delay, teenage parents, and families at risk for child abuse or neglect.6

It currently serves families in approximately one - third of counties with high rates of infant mortality, children living in poverty, low - weight births, and teen births.

These outcomes include mortality (all - cause, cancer, heart disease, stroke, infant) low birth weight, life expectancy, self - rated health, mental health and suicide.1 Not much left, really, unless you think waiting times for MRIs are equally important.

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

Funded programs work to improve utilization of these maternal and infant health services, as strategies to reduce rates of preterm birth, low birth weight, and infant mortality.