Perinatal mortality

Mandatory Vaccination, Or Parents Choice After learning I was pregnant with my oldest child I was asked the question that started it all. I was confused and caught off guard when I heard, “Do you plan on vaccinating the baby when it’s born?” Of course I did. Do parents not vaccinate? Isn’t it something you have to do? Why is this even a question? Toni Bark, the Medical Director at the Center for Disease Prevention and Reversal, states that today over 50% of children have some type of chronic…

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 rates are a terrible thing to look at. The city of Milwaukee for example, had 25% of Wisconsin’s infant deaths in the year 2010. Even though the number of births and the number of infant deaths has been declining in Milwaukee, it is still a serous problem. Between the years of 2009-2011, Milwaukee had a total of 205 stillbirths and 318 infant births. With the black population having the highest total infant mortality rate at 14.0 per 1,000 deaths. That is more than triple the…

problem, it is in need of a big solution. Not only are mothers affected in this situation, but fathers and newborns are also affected. No paid maternity leave is an important problem for Ohio because it could possibly connect to the high infant mortality rates in Ohio. Ohio State Legislative needs to implement a law to provide basic needs for the mothers of Ohio. If mothers are more concerned with their job and earning money, they may not be caring for their child properly. If mothers do take…

Birthmarks are blemishes on the skin that may occur at birth or after birth. Over eighty percent of babies are prone to have birthmarks. Birthmarks are not only hereditary, and some may be cancerous. There are two main tops of birthmarks; vascular and pigmented. This have several subdivisions that can be identified by shape, color, and size. While some birthmarks may fade out as the child grows, others are permanent and even grow. Depending on the type of birthmark is how treatment and severity…

APGAR is a quick test perform on a baby 1 and 5 minutes after birth. The 1-minute score determines how well the baby tolerated the birth process, and the 5-minutes score tells the doctor how well the baby is doing outside the mother’s womb. The APGAR is to determine whether a newborn needs breathing or is having heart trouble, to make sure that the baby is healthy, the score has to be of 7, 8, 9, these means that the baby is in good health. Any score lower than 7is a sign that the baby need…

young and growing, our internal clock is still ticking down from the very second your born. Although this may seem like a sad and depressed way to think about it is really not. Mortality is something that no one enjoys thinking about, and it is proven in different social cognition studies that contemplating our own mortality can threaten our Self-Esteem. But, apart of life is death and this should only make you strive for a good life. Aside from that, the reason I chose this study in particular…

experience. However, for some parts of the world, such as India, people are not able to experience such a feeling as parents, nor are they able to keep their newborn alive for more than a few weeks. According 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…

Végh, 2014). It also advances the arguments of public health experts on the danger of austerity to health (Bezruchka, 2009, Borisch, 2014, Burgard et al., 2013) . In fact, the crucial evidence on the cause-effect relationship between austerity and mortality stipulated in the book has provoked renewal on the debates that austerity is not only harmful but it also costs significant human lives. After all, Stuckler and Basu share the same idea with others who argue that austerity is never the right…

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…