Sentences with phrase «overall child mortality»

If vitamin A is adequate, we can prevent blindness and, most importantly, we can reduce overall child mortality by 23 - 34 %.

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Summary: Maternal and child undernutrition is highly prevalent in low - income and middle - income countries, resulting in substantial increases in mortality and overall disease burden.

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.

Although previous studies have found that breastfeeding provides a variety of benefits for babies, including apparently reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, the study is the first to demonstrate an overall reduction in mortality among U.S. children, Rogan and other experts said.

In addition, there is no difference in the overall mortality rate at 2 years between children of HIV + mothers randomized to breast or bottle feeding.

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.

While the overall rate of these infections in children is still low, ESBL - producing bacteria can spread rapidly and have been linked to longer hospital stays, higher health care costs, and increased mortality, the study authors noted.

The authors say: «The most efficient way of reducing overall influenza - attributable morbidity and mortality appears to be to target the key spreaders — children.»

As a group, the children had an overall mortality rate of 22.7 percent.

Death rates for each major category of childhood cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third of 1 percent of cancer deaths occur in children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination of childhood cancer deaths would have little impact on overall cancer mortality.

Research has shown that educating a girl has substantial positive effects on child mortality and nutrition, overall family health, fertility rates, women's domestic empowerment, women's wages, and, most interestingly, overall countrywide economic development.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

«The NACCHO Healthy for Life Report Card for 2013 clearly shows our services were able to reduce child mortality by 66 per cent, and overall Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mortality by 33 per cent.