Sentences with phrase «on premature mortality»

By far the greatest influence on premature mortality is poverty followed by geographical location: mortality rates in urban areas are higher than mortality rates in rural ones.

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«Improvements in these modifiable risk factors could have significant influence on premature birth and infant mortality worldwide.»

Premature mortality accounts for more than half of the overall welfare losses ($ 120 billion), followed by impacts on coasts ($ 42 billion) and agriculture ($ 18 billion).

They found that there was no corresponding drop in premature mortality for the surgeries that scored high on performance.

Reducing the length of time patients are on mechanical ventilation decreases the risk of these complications, but premature removal from mechanical ventilation can produce other complications and increase mortality.

Ivan Oransky, the executive editor of Reuters Health, who also blogs on medical research and the press, has an important post at his invaluable Embargo Watch blog revealing how the embargo rules, involving signed agreements, used by those involved with the rat study appear to have had the opposite goal — making sure reporters ran with the scary news about tumor rates and premature mortality in rats fed chow with G.M.O. ingredients without having time for analysis and crosschecking.

Lelieveld, J., J. S. Evans, M. Fnais, D. Giannadakii, and A. Pozzer, 2015: The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale.

Reductions in air pollution could deliver health benefits valued at $ 2.6 bn or $ 9.9 bn, depending on how you calculate, and then put a value upon, reductions in premature mortality.

The Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) is based on the sum of life years lost to premature mortality and years that are lived, adjusted for disability.

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

Poor physical function, pain and limited exercise: risk factors for premature mortality in the range of smoking or hypertension, identified on a simple patient self - report questionnaire for usual care

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