Sentences with phrase «reduce high birth»

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Living Goods has also noted a couple of ways in which the setting it is working in has changed since the start of the project: bednet coverage is 2 - 3 times higher and the market price of malaria treatment has been reduced.146 Under - 5 mortality in Uganda, according to the World Bank, decreased from 83 per 1,000 live birth in 2009 to 69 in 2012.147

In pregnant women, higher levels of dietary acrylamide have been linked to reduced birth weight and head circumference, key indicators of a child's future health.

In California's Central Valley, Colleen developed a county - wide educational track for nurses to train as midwives in order to help reduce high pre-term birth and teen pregnancy rates in Kern County, and provided well woman and prenatal care in a community health center primarily serving migrant farm workers.

In addition, there has been some evidence that folic acid might reduce the risk of other birth defects as well, and that moms with low folic acid might also have a higher risk of miscarriage, placental abruption, and preterm delivery — possibly because of the relationship between low folic acid and homocysteine levels.

The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action's Web site states that breast - feeding within the first hour of birth «is the first and most vital step» toward reducing the nation's neonatal mortality rate — one of the highest in the industrialized world.

While breastfeeding soon after birth is believed to increase uterus contraction and reduce bleeding, high quality evidence to support this is lacking.

However, low risk women (the ones eligible for home birth) are actually safer in the hands of a midwife, since the interventions that can reduce risk in a high - risk mother will frequently increase the risk in a low - risk mother!

Other benefits include increased blood flow to the placenta (s), reduced blood pressure, and potentially higher birth weights for the babies.

The review found that midwife - led care compared to other models of care reduces: preterm births (before 37 weeks) and overall fetal loss and neonatal death before 24 weeks (high - certainty evidence); the use of regional analgesia (epidural / spinal) during labour (high - certainty evidence); and instrumental vaginal births (high - certainty evidence).

More recently, rates of higher order births (three or more infants) have declined as changes in assisted reproductive techniques (ART) to reduce multiple pregnancies have been implemented (Smith 2014; Umstad 2013).

It also increases spontaneous vaginal births (high - certainty evidence) and probably reduces caesarean births and increases the number of women with an intact perineum (moderate - certainty evidence).

The following are some suggestions for reducing / managing complications associated with birth for women who had high BGLs in pregnancy.

Initiation of breastfeeding within the first hour of birth is the primary and most vital step towards reducing infant and under - five mortality, by reducing the overwhelmingly high neonatal mortality rate.»

«In vitro fertilization, often cited for high twin birth rate, could reduce it.»

A growing body of evidence indicates that receiving a mother's own milk, especially in high doses very soon after birth reduces the risk of acquiring very costly conditions in very low birthweight infants including sepsis, chronic lung disease and, especially, necrotizing enterocolitis, a devastating disease that affects mostly the intestine of premature infants.

Because hypertension can lead to complications (low weight babies, kidney problems, premature birth, and preeclampsia) you should take steps to reduce high blood pressure during pregnancy.

And according to research in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, getting better dental care during your pregnancy has been proven to reduce pre-term births and improve the overall health of moms - to - be, with no risk to your baby.

We are about to launch a feasibility trial to assess whether installing a water softener in the homes of high risk children around the time of birth may reduce the risk of eczema and whether reducing chlorine levels brings any additional benefits.»

«It will be valuable to learn whether improvements in earnings by families with pregnant women, improved maternal nutrition or reduced maternal stress — all factors associated with higher birth weight — also translate to better cognitive outcomes in childhood,» said Figlio, IPR faculty fellow and Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

Pregnant women with mid to high levels of antibodies common in patients with celiac disease are at risk for having babies with reduced fetal weight and birth weight, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.

The study found women who were pregnant during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when pollution levels were reduced by the Chinese government, gave birth to children with higher birth weights compared to those who were pregnant before and after the games.

New estimates of multiple births suggest that while guidelines have reduced IVF's contribution to the percentage of medically - assisted triplet (or higher order) births, non-IVF means are increasing their share.

A growing body of evidence indicates that receiving a mother's own milk, especially in high doses very soon after birth reduces the risk of acquiring very costly conditions in very low birthweight infants including sepsis, chronic lung disease and, especially, necrotizing enterocolitis, a devastating disease that affects mostly the intestine of premature infants.

Women with higher urinary concentrations of a common type of flame retardant had reduced likelihood of clinical pregnancy and live birth than those with lower concentrations, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

On average, compared to women with lower concentrations of these metabolites, women with higher concentrations had a 10 % reduced probability of successful fertilization, 31 % reduced probability of implantation of the embryo, and a 41 % and 38 % decrease in clinical pregnancy (fetal heartbeat confirmed by ultrasound) and live birth.

There's «high» and «moderate» evidence, respectively, that exercise during pregnancy reduces the risk of excess weight in babies at birth, and doesn't boost the risk of labor complications such as the need for induced labor or episiotomy (a surgical cut of vaginal tissue to aid delivery).

Embryo - fetal development studies carried out on mice and rats also observed a reduced number of pups per litter, reduced pup weight at birth, and an increased frequency of skeletal «variations» in pups after pregnant females were given high doses of DEP.

Selective aromatase inhibitors are promising new ovulation - inducing agents, which were developed to improve on the success of earlier drugs as well as reducing some of the drawbacks such as a high rate of multiple births.

And lentils are higher in most B vitamins and folate, which is especially important for women of childbearing age because folate reduces the risk of birth defects.

For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs students.

This initiative aims to reduce preterm births and improve outcomes for newborns and pregnant women through an awareness campaign to reduce the rate of early elective deliveries and providing funding to test enhanced prenatal care approaches to reduce the frequency of premature births among pregnant Medicaid or CHIP beneficiaries at high risk.

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

A subgroup analysis of high risk women who were unmarried and from low SES households (40 %) showed that home visits reduced the number of subsequent births (mean difference [MD] 0.5, p = 0.02), months that women received welfare (MD 29.9, p = 0.005), reports of behavioural impairment due to substance abuse (incidence 0.41 v 0.73, p = 0.005), records of arrests (incidence 0.16 v 0.90, p < 0.001), convictions (incidence 0.13 v 0.69, p < 0.001), and verified reports of child abuse and neglect involving the mother as perpetrator (incidence 0.11 v 0.53, p < 0.01).

The higher risk for maternal postpartum depression is also associated with reduced parenting skills, which may have negative consequences for the development of the child.28 — 30 Parents of obese children may lack effective parenting skills providing both a consistent structured frame and emotional support.31 In women with GDM, psychosocial vulnerability including low levels of social and family networks is associated with more adverse neonatal outcomes, especially increased birth weight.32 Thus, there is a tight interaction between maternal lifestyle, weight status, mental health, social support as well as between maternal and child's overall health.

Higher maternal education (aOR 0.44; 95 % CI 0.2 — 0.9) and being further along in the birth order (aOR 0.46; 95 % CI 0.3 — 0.9) reduced the odds of grade repetition.