News tagged with child mortality
The importance of grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely believed that women live long post-reproductive lives to help care for their grandchildren. According to the "Grandmother Hypothesis," post-menopausal women can increase their ...
Peer pressure builds more latrines than financial assistance
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Government subsidies persuade some people to change habits, but social shame works even better, suggests a recent study of efforts to reduce elevated childhood death and disease rates blamed on the microbial pathogens that ...
Research examines organization of militaries and its effects on society
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2009 |
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New research out of the University of Cincinnati is a rare examination of the social impact of armed conflict and militarization. Steve Carlton-Ford, a UC associate professor of sociology, presented the findings Aug. 11 at ...
Less child mortality among taller women in developing countries
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Each centimeter/inch counts for women in developing countries. This is the outcome of research by Christiaan Monden of Tilburg University and Jeroen Smits of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, which was recently ...
Afghan woman gives birth to headless conjoined twin: doctor
Sep 14, 2009 |
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An Afghan woman has given birth to a baby boy attached at the chest to a headless conjoined twin, a doctor at a hospital in northern Afghanistan said Monday.
Prioritizing low-cost, simple health measures would save 2.5 million child lives a year
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Almost a third of the children under age five who die each year could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure low-cost, simple interventions such as safe water and hygiene, bed nets and basic maternal ...
Global death toll: 1 million premature babies every year
Oct 04, 2009 |
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More than one million infants die each year because they are born too early, according to the just released White Paper, The Global and Regional Toll of Preterm Birth.
Cross-border health programs could reduce maternal and child deaths
Jan 13, 2009 |
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A policy promoting "cross-border" health programs could contribute to reducing maternal and child mortality in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, says an international team of health experts in this week's PLoS Medicine.
Cost-effective measures could stop child pneumonia deaths
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Implementing measures to improve nutrition, indoor air pollution, immunization coverage and the management of pneumonia cases could be cost-effective and significantly reduce child mortality from pneumonia, according to a ...
Review: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines effective at preventing child deaths
Oct 19, 2009 |
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A study published in The Cochrane Review this month concludes that pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), already known to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and x-ray defined pneumonia, was also effective agains ...
South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation ...
