Sentences with phrase «with high infant mortality rates»

So they looked at people who'd been born in states with high infant mortality rates — an indicator of social problems like poverty and limited access to medical care.

Here's one without cancer, there's one without Bach, over there's one with a higher infant mortality rate, and so on; this is the worst sort of anthropomorphism.

Some of those factors included a decline in birth rates corresponding with higher infant mortality rates, the discovery of vaccines, and a rise in hospital births.

Even Sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the highest infant mortality rates, shows improvements in some of its indicators.

Not exact matches

Mothers who give birth at home are as concerned with the under - reported and grossly high maternal mortality rate in hospitals as the infant mortality rate.

This isn't hard when the United States has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in the industrialized world (along with one of the highest rates of infant mortality).

The Baby Box Company is working with hospitals, community health organizations, and the non-profit Babies Need Boxes Ohio to give away cardboard box beds, for every newborn in the state this year, in an effort to reduce high infant - mortality rates.

The U.S., unfortunately, continues to have a shockingly high rate of infant mortality for a highly - developed country with advanced technology.

The Infant Mortality CoIIN and its participating teams strive to reduce infant mortality in areas with high annual rates of, as well as disparities in, infant mortality and related perinatal outInfant Mortality CoIIN and its participating teams strive to reduce infant mortality in areas with high annual rates of, as well as disparities in, infant mortality and related perinatal Mortality CoIIN and its participating teams strive to reduce infant mortality in areas with high annual rates of, as well as disparities in, infant mortality and related perinatal outinfant mortality in areas with high annual rates of, as well as disparities in, infant mortality and related perinatal mortality in areas with high annual rates of, as well as disparities in, infant mortality and related perinatal outinfant mortality and related perinatal mortality and related perinatal outcomes.

• In the 152 countries with high infant mortality and malnutrition rates as described by UNICEF, we apply the respective national laws and regulations or the WHO Code, whichever is stricter

Infectious disease rates are high in many less developed parts of the world, with high infant and child mortality rates — but industrialization, medicine, and money are not the end - all answers to optimal child survival.

TUH is located in North Philadelphia, an area that has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the United States with many babies born into poverty and to young mothers who do not have adequate resources to care for a newborn.

In particular, the Southern states suffer from high rates of infant mortality, along with several other negative population health indicators such as obesity and diabetes.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Higher taxes and prices for cigarettes are strongly associated with lower infant mortality rates in the United States, according to a new study from Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan released Dec. 1 in the journal Pediatrics.

In the 1800s breastfeeding of infants was understood to be the «gold standard» of nutrition, and a baby who was bottle - fed was regarded with pity because of the high mortality rate associated with this inferior method.

Tom Vitaglione, a senior fellow with the child advocacy group N.C. Child, said the state had been making progress in reducing infant mortality, building up early education programs and increasing high school graduation rates.

The countries with the lowest quality of life have more children in their population and also a higher infant mortality rate.

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

Fifteen sites with infant mortality rates 1.5 to 2.5 times higher than the national average are selected to conduct demonstration projects.

It currently serves families in approximately one - third of counties with high rates of infant mortality, children living in poverty, low - weight births, and teen births.

After controlling for age, race and education, infants with unwed mothers still have a higher mortality rate, even through early childhood years.

Infant mortality was also highest among black infants, with a rate of 8.7 deaths per every 1,000 live births.

Newark's rate of infant mortality has consistently remained higher than the state average, with a rate of 7.5 percent compared to 4.8 percent in 2015.