Despite substantial declines since 2000, lower respiratory infections (LRIs), diarrhoeal diseases, and malaria remain among the leading causes of nonfatal and fatal disease burden for children under 5 years of age (under 5), primarily in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The spatial burden of each of...
Despite the Communist government's campaign to narrow the sexual inequality in China since the 1949 Revolution, male dominance and son preference are still evident in many parts of the country. Using retrospective reports on infant and child mortality from the 1985 and 1987 In-Depth Fertility Surve...
Patricia A. Bowen C.R.T.
major causes of infant mortality in 2004 were perinatal causes and respiratory infections. mortality among low birth weight children from poor families fell 16% between 1993 and 2004; however, this rate increased by more than 100% among high-income families due to the increase in the number of...
By contrast, the concept of gender is not well defined. It is generally taken to refer to behaviors and psychological attributes that tend to be typical of a given sex. Some individuals identify as a gender that does not correspond to their biological sex. The causes of such cross-gender ...
(Pediatr Res 33: 373-379,1993) HR, hear: :ate Pao2, arterial oxygen tension Paco2, arterial carbon dioxide tension Sao2,arterial oxyhemoglobin saturation ANOVA, analysis of variance GBS is the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia and sepsis in the human neonate and remains an important cause of...
Maternal death in infancy or parental death in early childhood may have an impact on mortality but evidence has been limited to short-term or selected causes of death. Little is known about long-term or cause-specific mortality after parental death in childhood. Methods and ...
The examined cases consisted of 22 (379% of the total) which were accidental in nature, and 36 (623% of the total) which were intentional self-inflicted In the OG group, amitriptyline (24/28) was the leading cause of poisoning, contrasting with sertraline (13/30) in the NG group. ...
The United Nations have announced 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets, which are indivisible and integrated, and which balance the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. This indicates that the performance
aTo make progress the authors break up happiness into three components; welfare, contentment and dignity. Welfare is treated in a commonsense way, covering items such as life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality or health. Contentment is the type of thing measured by the questionnaire studies. I...