Child mortality

average 12 percent, and educated females with above-average skills in mathematics are able to earn 18 percent more in the future. One extra year of primary school alone boosts a girl’s future wages by 10-20%. A female who received an education as a child will reinvest an average of 90% of their wages to their families compared to an investment of only 30-40% reinvested by men. All in all, educated girls are able to boost the economy and pave the way for a more successful…

of a tiny, helpless, adorable baby? Do you worry that your baby will all of a sudden just quit breathing while he/she is sleeping? Well you should. Many people think that because their child is a certain race or ethnicity that they are safe from Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID). This is not the case, every child has a chance of dying from SUID, but it is true that some races have a higher possibility. This issue is one that every parent needs to be aware of and take the time to seek out…

psychology compared to an adult’s point of view,”(Schacter, Daniel L, 2009). One of the most important moments to a person is their own childhood memories because at the early age, a child begins to build skills like pre-reading, learning new words, learning numbers, and learning…

Any expecting, working mothers can relate to the stress of having a child, then having going back to work right after giving birth or having to worry about unpaid maternity leave. “The U.S. is the only developed nation that does not ensure a parent can be home with a new child and put food on the table for at least a block of weeks”. The first weeks of a baby’s life are priceless, a time when the parents should be bonding with the baby and properly caring for them, as well as recovering from the…

continue to be causative agents in the increase rates of infant mortality in the African American community. I designed two frameworks; one is symbolic of an egg. It has several layers around the fetus to protect it and increase its chances of survival. It has been noted by Mac Dorman and Matthews in their article Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the United States Infant Mortality Rates states that the disparity of infant mortality amongst the minority populations in the U.S. has…

Assessment Undoubtedly, the causality of infant mortality disparity seen among African American soon-to-be mothers is a major public health concern. It may not be one that can simply be measured by disparities in adulthood but shaped across an individual’s lifetime and potentially across generations as Freire (2000) eluded to in Pedagogy of the oppressed. In Orange County, FL whether the concerns streamed from Oppression or Residential Segregation or other additional factors, focusing on…

Introduction and Background on the Issue Haiti is regarded as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be an infant and to give birth. Haiti has one of the highest rates of infant and under-five mortality in world; one in 14 children die before the age 5. The maternal mortality rate in Haiti is 350 deaths per 100,000 births, where as in the United States it is 12.7 deaths per 100,000 births. This is a major issue because most maternal deaths are preventable as they are often due to…

infant mortality rate was at an all-time high. Health related issues were a problem during the era of industrialization and immigration. There were poor and unhealthy working conditions, improper hygiene in overcrowded apartments, and people did not have the same amount of access that the generation now has to health providers. With time, the U.S. was able to learn about these infectious diseases and the importance of hygiene to prevent the spread infection. This brought down the mortality rate…

Infant mortality is one of the important and widely used health indicators in the United State. While the definite cause of the infant mortality is still unknown, there are factors that are associated with the infant death. By looking at the trends between the trends between 1960 and 1995, we learn about many of these factors. Infant mortality rate declined slowly from 1960 to 1964, perhaps that is because the gap in mortality between black and white infants narrowed dramatically in this time…

ends meet. Another explanation for the large family size is the high rates of infant mortality (see Graph G.), since many children would be hard pressed to survive to their fifth birthday, much less marry. Indeed, the commonalty of the names Tobias, Johannes, and Josephus for men and Anna Maria and Catharina…