Sentences with phrase «preventing morbidity»

«Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 mo of life followed by optimal complementary feeding are critical public health measures for reducing and preventing morbidity and mortality in young children.»

«These findings highlight the importance of screening and treatment of heart disease risks factors to limit not only health care costs, but prevent morbidity and mortality for RA patients.»

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These genes are implicated in highly penetrant genetic disorders for which surgical or other interventions aimed at preventing or significantly reducing morbidity and mortality are available to pathogenic variant carriers.5 Identification of a pathogenic variant in one of these genes could be diagnostic of a medical condition with potential implications for an individual's medical management.

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.

Interventions such as exclusive breastfeeding (which prevents diarrhea), continuation of breastfeeding until 24 months of age, and improved complementary feeding (by way of improved nutrition), along with improved sanitation, are expected to affect mortality and morbidity simultaneously.

Summary: These guiding principles were prepared to help prevent increased morbidity and mortality among infants and young children affected by an emergency...

Appropriate feeding and care of infants and young children is essential to preventing malnutrition, morbidity and mortality.

Mrs. Alarbi said studies showed that for babies born to HIV - infected mothers, the use of niverapine drug combined with baby formulas to prevent mother - to - child transmission, could reduce child mortality to only two per cent of under - five mortality and morbidity while the use of insecticide - treated bed nets could reduce it by six per cent.

Childhood interventions that optimise social support, health, and wellbeing may affect not only adolescent QoL, but also adult outcome by optimising each individual's potential to adapt to, and prevent or reduce, the secondary morbidities often present.»

Dr. Ronald Ellis, Editor - in - Chief of HV&I, comments HPV vaccine is one of the most highly effective vaccines, and one of only two vaccines (along with hepatitis B) that has been shown to prevent an infection that can result in cancer, as well as morbidity and mortality.

«This study finds that not only are antibodies not effective at preventing transmission they may adversely influence both frequency of breast milk transmission and subsequent infant morbidity.

He proved that a vitamin A deficiency dramatically increased childhood morbidity and mortality from infectious disease, and that a 4 - cent dose of vitamin A not only prevented and cured eye disease, but also reduced childhood deaths by 34 percent.

To conduct behavioral research on cancer risk behaviors, including the development of a behavioral sciences knowledge base; and to develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate interventions that contribute to preventing and reducing cancer incidence, mortality and morbidity.

The goal of the lab's research is to prevent adverse drug reactions in veterinary patients, which increase patient morbidity and mortality, and add to the overall cost of veterinary care.

As these systems are responsible for most of the morbidity, a better understanding of these mechanisms will help to develop strategies to prevent, or at least minimize, short and long - term sequels.

Systematic review of long - term lifestyle interventions to prevent weight gain and morbidity in adults.

Such lead times provide opportunities for putting interventions in place and for preventing excessive morbidity and mortality during malaria epidemics.

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

The Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan for 2013 - 2020 is a commitment by all WHO Member States to take specific actions to promote mental well - being, prevent mental disorders, provide care, enhance recovery, promote human rights and reduce the mortality, morbidity and disability for persons with mental disorders including in older adults.

The intent of this review was to provide a framework for conceptualizing pediatric service provision in terms of specific developmental health care outcomes and to explore whether the current evidence base supports this kind of approach for evaluating health services intended to promote optimal development or prevent developmental morbidity.

The noncommunicable diseases associated with early childhood adversity have garnered a great deal of attention recently, as they are predicted to account for 90 % of the morbidity seen in high - income countries by the year 2030.62 Although this has prompted some to focus on the automatic brain processes that perpetuate the associated unhealthy lifestyles, 63 relatively little attention has been given to preventing or mitigating the toxic stress that allows these automatic processes and unhealthy behaviors to be learned and adopted in the first place.