Sentences with phrase «newborn deaths»

These services, provided by vetted local medical partners, are proven to reduce maternal and newborn deaths by up to 80 %!

How many newborn deaths at hospitals could have been prevented by home - birth?

The strategy has shown positive results in high mortality settings by reducing newborn deaths and improving key newborn care practices.

The overall risk of newborn death remains small, but it doubles for infants born before 37 weeks, compared to infants born at 40 weeks.

Researchers looked at the potential effects of passive smoking on newborn death, congenital birth defects and miscarriage.

The vast majority of newborn deaths take place in developing countries where access to health care is low.

Of those, newborn deaths now represent nearly half of all child deaths under five years.

In low - and middle - income countries, 1 in 5 babies is born too small (with a low birth weight) resulting in 20 % of newborn deaths.

Ironically enough, US has SECOND WORST newborn death rate in the world!

With mortality in later childhood decreasing, the proportion of deaths that take place in the neonatal period has been rising, with three main causes accounting for 88 % of newborn deaths in the region: (1) infections (including sepsis / pneumonia, tetanus, and diarrhea); (2) intrapartum - related conditions («birth asphyxia»); and (3) preterm births [34].

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.

Ending Newborn Death Obviously, this is an important topic to me.

Rwanda, one of Africa's poorest countries, has cut newborn deaths by 30 %, and any country could take the same simple steps that have proven so effective.

In Oregon, there have been at least 19 newborn deaths reported to the state over the past decade for a death rate more than 4 times higher than low risk hospital birth.

One state recently gained licensure of CPMs and oversight by physicians, where a midwife is linked to at least 2 newborn deaths prior to legalization.

Kangaroo care decreases newborn deaths, and these infants gain twice as much weight per day as standard incubator babies.

The Every Newborn Action Plan presents evidence - based solutions to prevent newborn deaths and stillbirths.

If newborn deaths had reduced at the same rate as that of children aged between one month and five years old the MDG target to reduce child deaths by two - thirds between 1990 to 2015 might have been reached.

This resulted in the proportion of newborn deaths increasing from 39.3 % in 2000 to 45.1 % in 2015.

News about a mysterious, tropical virus called Zika and its link to severe birth defects and newborn deaths abroad may be worrisome for many — especially pregnant women or those who are thinking about getting pregnant.

If the risk of death related to weekend births was the same as for babies born on weekdays, there would be 770 fewer newborn deaths across England every year, the study authors estimated.

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For instance, newborn death rates remain stubbornly static, while gender empowerment, and undernutrition lag behind for complex, interconnected reasons.

This could make BiliCam a useful tool for parents and health care workers in developing countries where jaundice accounts for many newborn deaths.

However, progress on reducing newborn deaths (in the first 28 days) has been slower meaning that as a whole the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing child deaths by two - thirds between 1990 and 2015.

Every Newborn aims to support countries in ending preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths in support of Every Women Every Child.

With a target of halving maternal and newborn deaths in facilities in 5 years, national governments from 9 first wave countries and partners are joining forces to establish a Network to improve the quality of care provided to mothers, newborns and children.

According to the report, midwives could reduce maternal and newborn deaths by two thirds and investments in midwifery training at an international level could result in a 1,600 per cent return on investment.

Some of the countries that outrank the United States in terms of newborn death risk are South Korea, Cuba, Malaysia, Lithuania, Poland and Israel, according to the study» (Rettner, 2011).

- Countries with high levels of newborn deaths are finding virtually free ways to reduce them.

STDs alone can cause miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, preterm labor and delivery, low birth weight, birth defects, still birth, illness in the newborn period and newborn death.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to receive the medical care their need during and after pregnancy and Kangu's mission is to help prevent maternal death and newborn death.

There could be future reproductive health problems like reduced fertility, infertility, negative feelings about childbirth and having another baby, higher risk for life - threatening complications in future pregnancies, including placenta previa, accreta or abruption, ectopic pregnancy, mild separation to frank rupture of previous uterine scar, fetal malformation or central nervous system injury, stillbirth and newborn death.

Our ministry, Heaven's Gain, provides help to those suffering a death of a baby whether it be due to miscarriage, premature birth, or newborn death.

This walk is dedicated to approximately 870,000 babies who die each year through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or newborn death.

Premature birth is the major cause of newborn death and illness in twins.

WHO and partners have established a network to halve maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths in health facilities within five years in nine participating countries

«Three out of four newborn deaths could be avoided with simple, low - cost tools that already exist, such as antibiotics for pneumonia, sterile blades to cut umbilical cords and knit caps to keep babies warm.»

Preterm birth, the leading cause of newborn death, costs more than $ 26 billion annually, according to the Institute of Medicine.

In industrialized nations deaths were most likely to result from babies being born too small or too early, while in the developing world about half of newborn deaths were from infection, tetanus and diarrhea.

Home births double risk of newborn death.

In fact, the latest statistics from the CDC show that planned homebirth in 2007 with a homebirth midwife (often called a certified professional midwife, CPM, or licensed midwife, LM) had a newborn death rate more than 7 TIMES higher than low risk hospital birth.

On Thursday, after inquiries from parents and The News & Observer, the center released the information about the newborn deaths.

83 % of all maternal deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths could be averted with midwifery care (including family planning).

Globally 2.6 million children died in the first month of life — approximately 7 000 newborn deaths every day with about 1 million dying on the first day and close to 1 million dying within the next 6 days.