Child mortality

especially in the case of those who are of low income and minority populations. The overtreatment of women with normal pregnancies, undertreatment of those with high risk pregnancies, and medical errors are all contributors to higher infant and maternal mortality, lower birth weights among minorities, and ultimately worse health outcomes over the lifecourse. In order to begin to reverse these poor health outcomes, Porter advocates for a system that organizes providers into integrated practice…

two industrialized countries who use their resources differently resulting in different outcomes. Overall the data shown by Norway proves that it is a healthier country than the U.S. The health indicators being compared are life expectancy, infant mortality rate, deaths due to HIV, contraceptive prevalence rate, and obesity rates, putting Norway on top. High-income countries do not lack resources, yet health disadvantages exist. Although industrialized countries are known to have higher income…

their young age. With the aforementioned archaeological evidence, combined with known beliefs of early Roman-Britain, Crummy is able to accurately display her ideas about the meaning of childhood and parenthood within a society with high infant mortality. Within Crummy’s article, two groups of infant burials are discussed. Although the specifics of each particular grave is covered, Crummy’s overall argument is one of more widespread pertinence to society within Roman Britain. While the commonly…

Someone on a low income is highly likely to lead a stressful life, above average in this aspect, which means they will spend less time with their child and will be less sensitive towards his needs – meaning inconsistent discipline, less interaction triggering the feeling of insecurity in the infant, and a reduced amount of verbal communication (1). The latter results in differences in brain functioning…

industrial complex has proven to be a social juggernaut, but one may be surprised at what kind of negative effects have been absorbed by the most vulnerable people in our society. According to Christopher Widman in his paper imprisonment and infant mortality Having ever been incarcerated or having an ever-incarcerated partner increases the risk of having infectious or stress-related…

reason to why the economy in Ethiopia is not thriving. In addition, their existing technology is old and unproductive. Therefore, farmers have more children to improve their farming because there is no new machinery available to assist with the jobs. “Child labor ages from five to fourteen years old and is fifty-three percent.” This than requires there to be more people to be fed. The increase in people causes the Gross Domestic Product to rise and also the standard of living. The poverty rate…

stark discrepancies remain between the different provinces. The two new studies into China’s state of health were published in the medical journal the Lancet on October 26. The studies looked at life expectancy, causes of death as well as child mortality in the Chinese provinces. While the study found the average life expectancy to go up by 8.5 years from 1990, some provinces managed to fare better than others. In Shanghai, the average life expectance was 85.2 for women and 80.2 for men.…

towards their female patients. During a time period plagued with an environment of extreme racial discrimination, African American women had to overcome many obstacles to gain access to quality health care. From 1900 to 1935, “infant and maternal mortality rates were higher among blacks than whites in the United States.”…

to The World Bank, India’s infant mortality rate is estimated to be at 38/1000 deaths. Compared to the United States who are only sitting at 6/1000 deaths. Taking this into consideration, what would it be like if a Hindu couple decided to have their baby in the United States? Geri-Ann Galanti provides the answer in her novel “Caring for patients from different cultures” by documenting an Indian nurse, Leila, who recalls the experience of having her first child…

the infant’s clinical history, by a complete autopsy or an examination of the death scene (Athanasakis, Karavasiliadou & Styliadis, 2011). SUID is a leading cause of infant mortality in the United States accounting for more than 4000 infant deaths each year (Schnitzer, Covington & Dykstra, 2012). It often happens when a child is sleeping or in the baby’s sleeping area (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2018). The three most commonly reported causes of SUID are Sudden Infant Death…