Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also referred to as crib death, is the unexplained, sudden death of a seemingly healthy baby under the age of one. Although the cause of SIDS is unknown, it has been considered to be associated with defects in the portion of a baby’s brain that r...
Causes of deathDiarrhoeaIn the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, infants experienced extremely high mortality risks towards the final decades of the nineteenth century. It has been stated that infant survival in the past highly depended upon the fact whether a child was breastfed or not. In this...
Fromconceptionto death, humans are targets for attack by multitudes of other living organisms, all of them competing for a place in the commonenvironment. The air people breathe, the soil they walk on, the waters and vegetation around them, the buildings they inhabit and work in, all can be...
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) happens when a baby passes away for no clear reason. Though doctors aren’t exactly sure what causes SIDS, they do know that babies are most likely to die of SIDS between 2 and 4 months. Still, it can happen at any time during your baby's first ...
Poverty, the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. Learn more about types and causes of poverty in this article.
Infant mortality. Causes of death during the first year of life in a five-year series. In the years 1966芒聙聯1970 all together 17 805 children were born in Malmo (population about 260000). 141 were stillborns and 172 infants survived at most... I Bjerre,G Ostberg - 《Acta Pã¦...
Changes in Statistics of Maternal Death in Korea (1995-2010) PURPOSE: In the past 15 years in Korea, there have been findings reporting a remarkable improvement in reduction of neonatal, infant, and perinatal mortality rates. Consequently, this study was conducted to examine the trends of materna...
Objectives: The study is aimed at assessing the profile of unnatural death in an oil-rich city in Niger Delta region. 16 On top of the larynx there if a fold of tissue called the epiglottis. From all causes, roughly 150,000 people die around the world each day. Falls: Falls are the ...
The aim of this clinicopathological study was to determine the frequency of infant deaths due to unnatural causes among cases of sudden and unexpected infant death. Nine institutes of legal medicine in Germany that took part in the German study on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (GeSID), representing...
Using a sample of 380 infant homicides in Texas from 1981 through 1991, a multivariate analysis between victim/offender relationship, cause of death, and victim's age at time of fatal injury, predicts the age at which an infant (≤34 months) is likely to be fatally injured. The findings ...