Importantly, rates of disability are declining much more slowly
than death rates.
I realize that this is not more headshake worthy
than the death rate, which is about as bad as we expected but I didn't want such a gem of an example of what passes for critical thinking and practice evaluation in midwifery circles to get lost.
That's 28 times higher
than the death rate of breech babies born in the hospital.
Does nine times higher death rate of breech babies in homebirth according to MANA stats
than the death rate of breech births in hospitals count as a proven negative outcome or not?
In this case, you may provide the following explanations in your persuasive essay on abortion: in some countries, the birth rate is much lower
than the death rate.
Females between 15 - 24 who suffer from anorexia nervosa show a mortality rate 12 times higher
than the death rate of all other causes of death.
Not exact matches
After adjusting for factors like smoking, they found that the
death rate was 26 percent higher in the most polluted cities
than in the cleanest ones.
The status quo for hundreds of thousands of people, meanwhile, is untenable: More
than 333,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year in any of four cancer types in which the five - year survival
rate remains lower
than 20 %, and in all, nearly 600,000 U.S.
deaths are expected from cancer in 2016.
Non-Hispanic black (NHB) women «continued to have higher breast cancer
death rates than [non-Hispanic white] women, with
rates 39 % higher in NHB women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»
- The
rate of childhood
deaths worldwide is declining sharply, even faster
than experts predicted; 122 million children's lives have been saved since 1990.
However it's frustrating to see that African Americans and Native Americans are being killed at significantly higher
rates than any other group, especially when the police officers responsible for those
deaths — those of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner to name a few — rarely face criminal charges.
In Africa, where the vast majority of malaria
deaths occur, the malaria
death rate has come down by more
than 70 percent.
Women who reported sitting longer
than six hours a day had a 40 % higher mortality
rate than those who sat for fewer
than three hours, whereas men had a 20 % higher
death rate.
Acute subdural hematomas have a worse track record
than chronic ones with a high
rate of
death and brain injury, MedlinePlus reports.
After a median four years of post-study follow - up, those in the least sedentary quartile (sitting a mean 649 minutes a day in typically 6.5 - minute bouts) had a dramatically lower
rate of
death from all causes
than those in the most sedentary group (835 minutes at rest, in periods of relative motionless averaging just under 20 minutes each).
Higher
rates of
death and cardiovascular disease were seen among those with high sodium intake, defined as higher
than 6,000 mg a day.
(These gun
deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide
rate than other developed nations.)
Second, firearm
deaths in states with higher buyback
rates per capita fell proportionately more
than in states with lower buyback
rates.»
(Gun
deaths are a big reason that America has a much higher overall homicide
rate than other developed nations.)
(These gun
deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide
rate, which includes non-gun
deaths,
than other developed nations.)
The consequent improved irrigation reduced calves»
death rate 75 %, increased milk production 50-fold, and allowed Nestle to pay higher prices to farmers
than those set by the government.
Apparently your God liked more babies dying but science had a heart and now birth mortality
rates are higher
than they have ever been in human history with fewer diseases and complications causing baby
deaths.
- Risk to a woman's health of childbirth (during first trimester, abortions have a
death rate that is more
than five times lower
than the risk of
death to mothers from childbirth.)
Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on
death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that
than any war of the past could be.
For a whole complex of reasons, which are often difficult to point to, the United States historically claims a higher
rate of infant
deaths than other developed countries.
The authors asked hospitalized patients to
rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse
than death, neither better nor worse
than death, a little better
than death, somewhat better
than death, or much better
than death.»
Patients displayed considerable heterogeneity in their
ratings of health states relative to
death... but significant percentages of patients
rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse
than death.
Death rates: The average life span of Christians is no better
than that of non-Christians, including atheists.
An evidence of the accuracy of the high
rating for the
death of a spouse was their discovery that the number of
deaths of widows and widowers during the first year following the
death of their spouse is ten times greater
than the
deaths of others in their age groups.
Measles, now considered a mild childhood infection in this country, has a
death rate in Mexico 180 times higher
than in the United States.
Let's be honest here: is there anyone in the US homebirth community who believes those
death rates are anything other
than hideous?
No matter that it comports with the data from Oregon that shows that PLANNED homebirth with a LICENSED homebirth midwife has a
death rate 9X higher
than comparable risk hospital birth or that MANA has found that its own members have such hideous
death rates that they have been desperately hiding them for years.
In fact, the
rate of homebirth
death is more
than double that of MDs and their statistics include all high risk births.
If properly trained midwives exclude higher risk patients in advance, then why is their
death rate acceptable only in a study that has much stricter criteria for inclusion
than real life?
However in the US the figure is 21 maternal
deaths per 100,000 births — more
than 3 times the
rate in the Netherlands.
And North Carolina is vying to be the homebirth
death capital of the US: they had 5 publicly reported homebirth
deaths last year for a
rate 12X higher
than low risk hospital birth.
That's why it is absolutely critical for readers of Charlotte's story to understand that Charlotte didn't have to die, that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal
death, and that licensed Oregon homebirth midwives have a
death rate 800 % higher
than term hospital birth.
This is the 4th confirmed homebirth
death in NC this year for a
rate that is a whopping TEN times higher
than the
rate of
death for comparable risk hospital birth.
However, the homebirth
death rate for American midwives is more
than triple the homebirth
death rate for Canadian midwives.
Indeed, the study shows that homebirth with an American direct entry midwife has more
than triple the
death rate of homebirth with a Canadian midwife.
Do you know how many times that
death toll is greater
than the current maternal mortality
rates in the developed world?
For example, if we look at
deaths per 1000 live births, Netherlands has a much lower
rate than the U.S..
In yet another example of a strikingly robust finding, planned homebirth in NZ had more
than triple the neonatal
death rate of planned hospital birth.
The data from the Netherlands shows that low risk birth with a Dutch midwife has a HIGHER
death rate than high risk birth with a Dutch obstetrician.
In fact, a report published last month — Differences Between Rural and Urban Areas in Mortality
Rates for the Leading Causes of Infant Death: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban coun
Rates for the Leading Causes of Infant
Death: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban coun
Death: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality
rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban coun
rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal
death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban coun
death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality
rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban coun
rates were higher in rural counties
than in large urban counties.
Analyzing medical
death rate data over an eight - year period, John Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more
than 250,000
deaths per year are due to medical error in the United States.
The perinatal (around the time of birth)
death rate of babies born in nonhospital settings is much higher
than for babies born in a hospital, even though their mothers are supposedly lower - risk.
It even reduces the chances of sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS), cutting the
rates by more
than half, according to Bradley University.
In Oregon, there have been at least 19 newborn
deaths reported to the state over the past decade for a
death rate more
than 4 times higher
than low risk hospital birth.
Also, a study that says, «three times the
death rate... but as safe or safer
than...» (without putting enough qualifiers there to prevent cognitive dissonance) suggests a bias.