News tagged with “infant mortality”. Found:
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Trying to Explain a Drop in Infant Mortality
Racine :: WI :: USA | 1 day ago
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Pendleton moved from a community in Racine that was thick with poverty to a better neighborhood in Madison...As she cradled her 2-month-old daughter recently, she described the fear and isolation she had experienced during her first two pregnancies, and...
Tags: Dane County, Racine County, premature birth, infant mortality, Madison, University of Wisconsin, pregnant women, Milwaukee, Ms. Hatcher, county nurses, Racine, Health Medical Pharma, Demography, Childbirth, Social Issues, Preterm birth, Midwifery, Obstetrics, Public health, Pregnancy
GUATEMALA: Sex Education, Family Planning Finally Available
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | 2 days ago
Credibility Social organisations in Guatemala are celebrating the entry into effect of a family planning law that will usher sex education into the country's classrooms and facilitate access to birth control methods, as a victory in the fight against the country's...
Tags: Guatemalan Social Security Institute, family planning, Guatemala City, sex education, Catholic Church, infant mortality, planning law, Mirna Montenegro, IPS, birth control, Guatemala, Demography, Maternal death, Abortion, Social Issues, Population, Reproductive health, Obstetrics, Pregnancy
Reports: Zimbabwean women, kids vulnerable
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 4 days ago
Credibility Living conditions in Zimbabwe for women and children has deteriorated during the last five years, government data and a U.N. report indicated...The information indicated the mortality rate for children under age 5 rose 20 percent since 1990, the baseline...
Tags: Zimbabwean, Zimbabwe, Harare, Social Issues, Demography, Infant mortality, UNICEF, Zimbabwean cholera outbreak, AIDS, Health care system
United Nations Populations Fund: State of the world population 2009
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Extreme drought, unusually heavy rains, devastating floods and rising sea levels are deepening divisions between rich and poor as well as men and women, according to the latest recent United Nations report on the state of the world's population. "Women...
Tags: New York City, Death, Actuarial science, Maternal death, Infant mortality, Life expectancy, Demography, Population, Obstetrics, Social Issues, Environment
Child abuse rife in Afghanistan: UN
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 days ago
Credibility Eight years after the US-led overthrow of the Taliban, children in Afghanistan are suffering disastrous levels of abuse, deprivation and mortality, officials say. Seventy per cent of the population has no access to safe drinking water.
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, Child abuse, Infant mortality, Politics, UNICEF, Demography, War in Afghanistan, Social Issues, Taliban, War Conflict
Mental machinery for EU lagging
Tōkyō :: Japan | 7 days ago
Credibility Rafferty has ticked all the relevant boxes bringing to light most, if not all, of the salient and negative aspects of the European Union. The EU is a laudable conception, but the requisite mental machinery is not yet in place for its effective operation.
Tags: The Japan Times, Japan Language, necessarily reflect, japan language, info guide, study business, guide links, opinions expressed, language study, japan info, Japan, Tōkyō, Ichirￅﾍ Hatoyama, Haruko Hatoyama, Prime Ministers of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, Democratic Party of Japan, Politics, Setsuko, Faith, Religion Belief, Barack Obama, Luo people, Punahou School alumni, Ichihara Chiba, Afghanistan, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Much Ado About Nothing, Conspiracy theories, Human Interest, Global health, Infant mortality, Poverty, Child mortality, Mortality rate, Demography, Death, Population, Social Issues, Health Medical Pharma
Infant mortality rate declines, but challenges remain
Bangalore :: India | 7 days ago
Credibility The State of the World's Children' report which tracks the impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which completed its 20th anniversary. The access to drinking water has improved from 62% in 1992-93 to 88 percent in 2005-06 while in...
Tags: aged group, India, Unicef Representative for Karnataka, infant mortality, Bangalore, Public health, Population, Breastfeeding, Karnataka, Demography, Human development, Women's rights, Social Issues
HR body concerned about Afghan children rights
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 9 days ago
Credibility Afghan children in the post-Taliban country, the body said in a press release here. "Afghanistan has signed and ratified the international convention on the rights of the children in 1994, in spite of ratifying of this convention, there are still many...
Tags: Afghanistan, worst place, children report, Kabul, Taliban, Human rights in Afghanistan, Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, War in Afghanistan, Social Issues, UNICEF Ireland, UNICEF UK, UNICEF, Infant mortality, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Ann Veneman, Islamism, War Conflict
Health Report rankings released
El Dorado :: KS :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility A national study ranking the health of the 50 states is showing a mixed picture for Kansas, with the health of the population improving in some ways and declining in other ways in the past year. According to the report, released by the non-profit United...
Tags: Kansas, mental health, Roderick L. Bremby, El Dorado Times, El Dorado, Body shape, Nutrition, Obesity, Infant mortality, Public health, Demography, Bariatrics, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Oklahoma receives low grade on premature birth rates
White Plains :: NY :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility The rate of pre-term births in Oklahoma was 13.5 percent in 2009, including 1,135 premature births in Tulsa County, according to the report, which was discussed Tuesday during an event with children from Kendall-Whittier Elementary. Carol Kuplicki, an...
Tags: premature birth, birth rate, preterm birth, U.S, report cards, Utah, White Plains, Tulsa Oklahoma, Oklahoma, March of Dimes, Childbirth, Tulsa County Oklahoma, Pregnancy, Caesarean section, Progesterone, Induction, Obstetrics, March for Babies, Infant mortality, Gestation
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