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- 1From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLast October, in an attempt to make a dent in the huge, persistent toll of maternal deaths and disease, WHO launched a campaign to urge country health authorities to tackle the heavy toll of unsafe pregnancies. Of the...
- 2From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI am to be a mother in July.... Are there any spacil things that i should eat? If so, what? Any what kind of exercices should i take? And how often? What kind of clothes should i buy and make for the baby and my self?...
- 3From:Population and Development Review (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAs part of a series consisting often reports discussing public health achievements in the United States during the twentieth century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a summary description of...
- 4From:Consultant (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMaternal mortality associated with childbearing plummeted more than 99% during the last century, as did infant mortality, which dropped 90%. [1] The CDC has recognized this accomplishment as 1 of the top 10 public...
- 5From:Medical World News (Vol. 31, Issue 11)Drive Is On to Cut Infant Deaths San Francisco--Although infant mortality rates have been improving throughout the industrialized world, the latest federal figures rank the U.S. 22nd among nations, with an infant...
- 6From:Evidence-Based Nursing (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedQUESTION: Does developmental care (ie, interventions designed to modify the neonatal intensive care unit [NICU] environment and thereby minimise the stress experienced by preterm infants) reduce adverse outcomes in...
- 7From:Pediatrics (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. In 1976, the Committee on Perinatal Health recommended that hospitals with no neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or intermediate NICUs transfer high-risk mothers and infants that weigh <2000 g to a regional...
- 8From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 81, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedObjectives To identify and quantify risk factors for perinatal mortality in a Kenyan district hospital and to assess the proportion of perinatal deaths attributable to labour complications, maternal undernutrition,...
- 9From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 327, Issue 7407) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Objective To determine whether the imbalance in the sex ratio in India can be explained by less favourable treatment of girls in infancy. Design Analysis of results of verbal autopsy reports over a five...
- 10From:Pediatrics (Vol. 101, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Although infant mortality rates have declined gradually in New York City for many years, the rate of that decline began to accelerate dramatically at the end of the 1980s. Objective. To analyze the recent...
- 11From:Pediatrics (Vol. 103, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAim. To compare the survival of premature infants, adjusted for disease severity, in different types of neonatal intensive care setting ... Results. Actual survival rates for infants [is less than or equal to] 32...
- 12From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 77, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA confidential system of enquiry into maternal mortality was introduced in Malaysia in 1991. The methods used and the findings obtained up to 1994 are reported below and an outline is given of the resulting...
- 13From:Studies in Family Planning (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEuropean Journal of Population 15(1999): 241-278. Turkey is a country that is demographically unclassifiable because its persistently high infant mortality is out of line with its socioeconomic indicators and its low...
- 14From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 152, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe United States currently has a higher infant mortality than 17 other countries, with a rate of 10 deaths per 1,000 live births. Japan, with the lowest infant mortality, has a rate of five deaths per 1,000 births....
- 15From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground. The relative safety of the small obstetrics unit compared with that of the larger or more technologically sophisticated units remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship...
- 16From:Hospitals (Vol. 64, Issue 17)A national program to reduce infant mortality is the presidential initiative taken on by Ezra Davidson, Jr., M.D., the new president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Washington, DC....
- 17From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 312, Issue 7033) Peer-ReviewedIn the 1993 United Kingdom (except Scotland) inquiry into intrapartum related mortality with a weight at birth of at least 2500 g there were 367 deaths among the 666204 babies born in hospital (1:1815) and 21 among the...
- 18From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 79, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMaternal mortality is an important measure of women's health and indicative of the performance of health care systems. Several international conferences, most recently the Millennium Summit in 2000, have included the...
- 19From:Reproductive Health (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): A. C. Moran1 , A. B. Moller1 , D. Chou1 , A. Morgan2 , S. El Arifeen3 , C. Hanson4 , L. Say1 , T. Diaz1 , I. Askew1 and A. Costello1 Background The health of women and children are critical for global...
- 20From:African Journal of Reproductive Health (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDespite economic growth in Nigeria, maternal and infant mortality rates remain among the highest in the world. Civil society organisations (CSOs) play a critical role in ensuring governmental accountability to fulfil...