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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"child death"”.
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"To the Memory of Sweet Infants": Eighteenth-Century Commemorations of Child Death in Tidewater, Virginia
… Tidewater was set against the grim specter of death. Children were especially vulnerable, perishing with disheartening frequency throughout the century. Yet despite the high rates of child mortality, Tidewater culture underwent a revolution in regard to the eighteenth-century family. Children …
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Health service utilisation prior to out-of-hospital natural deaths among children under five in Metro West, Cape Town in 2018: a retrospective analysis of data from the Child Death Review
… from 25 per 1000 live births in 2010 to 22 deaths per 1000 live births in 2013, but the rate of decrease slowed down in part because of the amount of child deaths outside of health facilities. Fifty-five percent of under-five deaths occur out-of-hospital in South Africa, with a similar …
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Telling the story: what can be learned from parents' experience of the professional response following the sudden, unexpected death of a child?
… intervention following sudden, unexpected child death. In the UK all deaths of this nature are subject to a Rapid Response, which includes forensic investigation, followed by a series of subsequent meetings. These procedures were part of a number of recommendations arising from the Report,’ …
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Bird Bones and a Hatched Egg
… relationship: meeting, love-making, birth of a child, death. Quotes from various authors of anthropological and fictional texts begin each section to reinforce thematic structure in a process of unveiling the agency of the narrator. The poems are organized as a series, beginning and ending with …
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Exploring Medical Expert Testimony and its Contribution to Miscarriages of Justice An Examination of the Flawed Pathological Evidence of Dr Charles Smith
… Dr. Charles Smith in eight cases of unexplained child death. The findings suggest that Dr. Smith's expert evidence was not adequately evaluated at the gate of admissibility, and may have been evaluated by internalized judgments rather than direct assessments of that evidence. The results indicate …
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Two investigations into the causal link between child mortality and subsequent fertility using DHS data from Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
… two investigations into the causal link between childhood mortality and fertility using Demographic and Health Survey data from Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, countries which are at different stages of the demographic transition. The first investigation assesses the effect of the …
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Social security as an investment:a Monte Carlo investigation
… he will receive. These events are the birth of a child, death, marriage, divorce, retirement, and disability onset. The measurements used are the individual expected rate of return and the overall population rate of return. The former is expected to be more important to an individual, while the …
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Modeste Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death (A Performer's Guide)
<p>MODESTE MUSSORGSKY'S SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH</p> <p>[A Performer's Guide]</p> <p>Peter Alan Barton</p> <p>Modeste Petrovich Mussorgsky, one of the Russian composers known as the "Mighty Handful," was an innovator of Russian music. Mussorgsky is widely recognized for the genius of his opera …
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Assessment of the efficacy and efficiency of rapid rehydration in children with dehydration due to gastroenteritis in the rehydration unit of Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
… gastroenteritis (AGE) remains a leading cause of child death worldwide. The primary treatment is enteral rehydration. Children who fail a trial of oral fluids require rehydration in hospital, preferably via nasogastric tube. Traditionally, children have been rehydrated over 24 hours; 'Standard …
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Differences Between Male Perpetrators of Child Homicide
The scientific study of child abuse and infanticide is a relatively young practice in the field of medicine, psychiatry and psychology, and although the role of parents in child homicide has been studied, minimal research has focused on the role of the male paramour, or the child's mother's …
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Motherhood in the therapy room. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of mother-therapists who work with mothers who grieve for their child
… mothers) therapeutic work with mothers whose child had died. Through this exploration an awareness of how motherhood can shape the therapeutic encounter when working with this client group was created. The study furthermore considered how the work shaped participants’ personal and clinical …
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A phenomenological study of the professional support requirements and grief interventions to parents bereaved by an unexplained death at different time periods in the grief process
… and one grandparent bereaved by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC) were interviewed. The researcher identified 13 support need and grief interventions and four themes for lived experience for participants. The support needs identified for parents …
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The Status of Iowa Sleep-Related Infant Mortality: An Evaluation of Safe Sleep Education Delivery, Policy, and Practice in Birthing Hospitals
… infant mortality, including sudden infant death syndrome, asphyxia, and undetermined or unknown causes, is the third leading cause of death nationally and in Iowa (Harris, 2014; Malloy & Ramirez, 2013). Evidence exists for increasing rates of bed sharing, a major risk factor for …
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The Status of Iowa Sleep-Related Infant Mortality: An Evaluation of Safe Sleep Education Delivery, Policy, and Practice in Birthing Hospitals
… infant mortality, including sudden infant death syndrome, asphyxia, and undetermined or unknown causes, is the third leading cause of death nationally and in Iowa (Harris, 2014; Malloy & Ramirez, 2013). Evidence exists for increasing rates of bed sharing, a major risk factor for …
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The Lived Experience of Parental Bereavement
… mothers and fathers who have experienced the death of a child due to cancer. Van Manen’s (1997) method guided this qualitative inquiry. New knowledge describing the meaning of the lived experience of parental bereavement promotes a better understanding of the phenomenon from the perspective of …
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The spatial distribution of injury mortality of children in the western geographic service area, City of Cape Town (2011-2015)
Background: Child injury is a major global public health concern with accounting for nearly 300,000 deaths annually and non-fatal injuries resulting in long or short - disabilities. Young children are more likely to be involved in a non-fatal injury than adolescents, who are more likely to be …
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Essays in health and development economics
… technology throughout India in the 1980s on the childbearing decisions of parents and the marriage market dynamics of exposed children. While ample work has documented the relationship between access to sex selection technology and heavily male-skewed child sex ratios, we know little about how …