Sentences with phrase «studied child mortality rates»

She and her colleagues have studied child mortality rates and their causes between 2000 and 2013.

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Similarly, a study using data from 219 countries found that, for every additional year of education for women, the child mortality rate decreased by 9.5 percent.

Studies show that children who are not breastfed have higher rates of mortality, meningitis, some types of cancers, asthma and other respiratory illnesses, bacterial and viral infections, ear infections, juvenile diabetes, some chronic liver diseases, allergies and obesity.

The study revealed that children receiving the antipyretics had prolonged illness, more diarrhea, ear infections and respiratory ailments, such as pneumonia, bronchitis and laryngitis, and significantly greater mortality rates.

Because the study design leaves open the possibility of confounding variables that were not measured, the results can not be definitively interpreted as causal evidence that PMI reduced child mortality rates.

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.

Britain has a child mortality rate of 1630 deaths per one million children, according to the study, which was led by Professor Colin Pritchard of Bournemouth University.

While deaths from infectious diseases have been steadily declining as a result of research and medical intervention, preterm birth has remained a much more difficult problem, say the authors of a recent study that collated child mortality rates and their associated causes between 2000 and 2013.

The students are employing that technology — which includes CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) systems, DNA microarrays, real - time polymerase chain reactions, RNA sequencing and western blotting — to study acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which affects both children and adults and comes with a high mortality rate for older patients.

I've seen fascinating efforts lately to use new software and graphics tools to visualize sets of data ranging from flights over the United States in a 24 - hour period to patterns of obesity onset and weight loss in the Framingham heart study to work charting relationships between child mortality, income and fertility rates.

Additional studies have demonstrated that paid leave is associated with reduced rates of infant and child mortality, and maternal health and well - being are more strongly associated with the mother's role satisfaction and the support received from spouse and society.

Mothers are a logical focus for the study of parent problems and adult — offspring depressive symptoms due to gender differences in mortality rates as well as the distinctive nature of the mother — child relationship.