Sentences with phrase «young child mortality»

The abolition of this post would run counter to UNICEF's mandate of reducing infant and young child mortality and malnutrition.

Not exact matches

VAD can damage the immune system and decrease the body's ability to resist or fight infections, therefore increasing the risk of mortality from common diseases especially among young children.

* Issue 38, Aug - Oct 2005 Insert 1 - 1st International Training Course on Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Insert 2 - Anatomy of a Successful Campaign Insert 3 - Fighting an Old Battle in a New World Insert 4 - 2005 World Summit Outcome Insert 5 - High mortality & malnutrition affect Muslim children most says UN children's agency

After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, formula donations sent to affected areas resulted in immediate decreased rates of breastfeeding and higher rates of diarrhoea and mortality among young children.

These topics include: maternal health, prenatal and infant / child oral health, newborn screening, infant mortality, home visiting, pediatric emergency care, child safety, school - based health, children's healthy weight, adolescent and young adult health, and environmental health.

«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.»

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

International Baby Food Action Network IBFAN works globally to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality by the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices.

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

there's some stuff looking at morbidity and mortality in young children who have been weaned (or not) that might be worth looking at... all developing country contexts but that's where you find enough children breastfeeding past infancy to look at!

«WABA believes that programmes related to food and nutrition, health care and development and, especially programmes on infant and young child feeding, should be free from commercial influence and conflicts of interest» advocates Dato Anwar Fazal, WABA Executive Director; «this is especially since optimal breastfeeding, including early, exclusive breastfeeding for six months, and continued adequate breastfeeding for up to two years or longer constitute the primary intervention to prevent child mortality worldwide.»

Effectiveness of Vitamin A Supplementation in the Control of Young Child Morbidity and Mortality in Developing Countries.

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The fundamental means of preventing malnutrition and mortality among infants and young children is to ensure their optimal feeding and care.

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

URIs are the most common reason that parents take young children to the doctor and lead to massive direct costs, high indirect costs including work absenteeism among parents, and even mortality, especially in disadvantaged groups, say the authors.

In the European Union, children younger than 14 years account for a higher proportion of pedestrian mortalities than any other age group except the elderly; in the U.S., among children killed by cars, nearly a quarter were on foot.

Death rates for each major category of childhood cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third of 1 percent of cancer deaths occur in children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination of childhood cancer deaths would have little impact on overall cancer mortality.

SMA is a rare genetic disorder that results in neuromuscular disability beginning in infancy and is the leading inherited cause of mortality in infants and young children.

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Improved access to drinking water of more adequate quantity and better quality, and improved sanitation reduce the main factors of morbidity and mortality of young children

Studies performed in multiple countries have shown an increase in child morbidity and mortality during extreme heat events.26 Infants younger than 1 year27, 28 and high school athletes29, 30 seem to be at particularly increased risk of heat - related illness and death.

Since women have a higher life expectancy and mortality charges for your young children are much lower, you fall into a trap.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.

The National Paediatric Mortality Register (NPMR; formerly the National Sudden Infant Death Register) obtains accurate, up - to - date information on unexpected / unexplained deaths in infants and young children.

Mortality associated with attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug treatment: a retrospective cohort study of children, adolescents and young adults using the general practice research database

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

Other areas of concern discussed include: the state's infant mortality rate, lack of widespread early screening and intervention for developmental delays, and a growing number of young children in the child welfare system.

Aboriginal health is clearly much lower than it could be, but the problem is one of adult mortality, in addition to avoidable deaths among young children.