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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Infant mortality rates"”.
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The Cuban Experience: Comparative of Health Systems and Infant Mortality Rates
… highly influence our country’s respectively high infant mortality rates. Infant mortality rates are affected by a range of social determinants of health, low birth weight, and racial disparities. This paper addresses the United States’ and Cuban models of healthcare through a comparative lens to …
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Availability Of & Access to Prenatal Care & The Effects On Maternal & Infant Mortality Rates: A Comparison of Central American Countries, Costa Rica & Guatemala
… to prenatal care and both the maternal and infant mortality rates are comparable to more developed countries with significantly higher rates of economic development and higher spending on healthcare per capita. In juxtaposition, the lack of prenatal care within Guatemala’s health care system …
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Save the Babies: Progressive Women and the Fight for Child Welfare in the United States, 1912-1929
… in the early twentieth century to combat high infant mortality rates, improve prenatal and postnatal care, and better child welfare. The Better Babies Bureau, founded in 1913 by journalists from the Woman's Home Companion magazine, and the Children's Bureau, founded as a federal agency in 1912, …
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An historical demographic investigation into mortality in three historical birth cohorts born between 1837 and 1900 in Mamre, with special reference to life expectancy
… to gather information needed to determine the infant mortality rates, quinquennial mortality rates and life expectancies of the three cohorts. Issues related to the quality of data – non-registration and follow-up - were investigated. Birth registration was best for the 1837-46 cohort for males …
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Mi naqui: Birth and infancy in late medieval and Renaissance Florence
… Moreover, they recognized that newborns and infants had special needs, which they provided for willingly within the structures of their daily lives. Although a serious and deadly business, the miracle of birth provided most Florentines with joy and a sense of fulfillment. The many rituals …
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Infant Mortality in the United States and Its Correlation to Healthcare Access
Introduction: Infant Mortality is a continuing problem in the United States of America. Multiple different factors play a contributing role in the risk of experiencing infant mortality. Infant mortality has been found to have a strong correlation with race and socioeconomic status. Objective: The …
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Assessment of the robustness of recent births in estimating infant mortality using multi-country Demographic Health Survey data
… the robustness of recent births in estimating infant mortality rates from the proportion of deaths observed among births reported in a 24month period. The Blacker Brass technique is applied to all births reported in the 24month period and to most recent births in the 24 month period. The study …
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Decentralization and health performance in Italy: theoretical and empirical issues
… and regional health outcomes, as measured by infant mortality rates, in Italy. The paper employs a panel of all Italian regions over a period of 17 years (from 1996 to 2012), applying a linear Fixed-Effect model. Two different quantitative measures of fiscal decentralization are used, which …
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Scarred for Life. How conditions in early life affect socioeconomic status, reproduction and mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813-1968
… importance of diet and disease in explaining the mortality decline and the general literature of the long-term effects of early life conditions. Using individual-level data from Southern Sweden for 1813 to 1968, this work measures the impacts of grain prices during the foetal stage and infant …
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B'More For Healthy Babies: A Case Study
… In 2009, Baltimore City had one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country: 13.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. Black babies were five times more likely to die than white babies (Baltimore City Health Department, n.d.). In response to this public health crisis, government, nonprofit, …
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Infant Mortality in Zambia
… attached to the study and understanding of infant mortality for any country cannot be overestimated. Infant mortality rate is a sensitive index of socio-economic conditions of a population. It is an excellent indicator of the level and quality of the health delivery system and other …
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Infant Mortality in Zambia
… attached to the study and understanding of infant mortality for any country cannot be overestimated. Infant mortality rate is a sensitive index of socio-economic conditions of a population. It is an excellent indicator of the level and quality of the health delivery system and other …
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Estimating fertility and childhood mortality for the western region of Ghana from pregnancy history data
… aims at estimating fertility and childhood mortality rates for a rural community in the Western Region of Ghana using the pregnancy history method. The method was found to have a few advantages over other indirect methods used for estimating fertility and childhood mortality. However, …
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Estimating fertility and childhood mortality for the western region of Ghana from pregnancy history data
… aims at estimating fertility and childhood mortality rates for a rural community in the Western Region of Ghana using the pregnancy history method. The method was found to have a few advantages over other indirect methods used for estimating fertility and childhood mortality. However, …
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Captive breeding programmes for nocturnal prosimians
… analysed. The difference between birth and death rates, infant mortality rates, age structure and sex composition were investigated. The study concludes populations of aye-aye, fat-tailed dwarf lemur, grey slender loris and pygmy slow loris were not self-sustaining whereas Goodman’s mouse lemur …
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From the Mouths of Babes: Infant Mortality and Medicalised Motherhood in County Durham, England, 1892-1914
… Northeast, experienced some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. At the same time, medical discourse focused on improving infant health outcomes was undergoing a dramatic shift that placed growing importance on the role of the mother and her abilities to raise the next …
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A medico-legal study of infant mortality in Kuwait from 2003 to 2006: A retrospective study
Infant mortality refers to the death of a child less than one year of age. It is a sensitive index of the general health and welfare of the population of any nation. There are several conditions which are associated with infant deaths. These include congenital disorders, premature birth, …
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Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Primary Care-Givers in Ancient Rome
… of conception, gestation, childbirth, and early infant care have received much less attention. In this thesis they are considered together and thus in light of one another. The first chapter of this study surveys the social context of Roman maternity through an examination of the purpose of an …
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The Ties That Do Not Bind: Social Capital, Minority Female Representation, and Social Inequality in the United States
… bureaucratic representation reduce disparity in infant mortality rates.
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The Evolution of Prenatal Care in the United States : The Formative Years
… <p>Initially the lowering of maternal and infant mortality rates was the raison d'etre of prenatal care. Scattered studies on the effects of prenatal care on mortality rates did indicate a decrease in perinatal and maternal mortality rates with exposure to prenatal supervision. Though these …
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