Mortality rate has slightly different definitions depending on the particulars of the study. Death rate tends to be pretty straight forward; how many people die in a given time period. Mortality rate is often used to describe subsets such as infant, child, or maternal mortality, which narrows...
Among the topics, Vice President Harris addressed the startling statistics of Black maternal mortality. She pointed out, “Before, during, and after childbirth, women in America die at a higher rate than in any other wealthy nation in the world, and Black women are three...
The recent paper in JAMA alleging that frozen embryo transfer causes twice the risk of childhood cancer in the offspring is an excellent example of the err
TheNational Maternal and Infant Health Surveywas conducted in 1988 and studied pregnancy risk factors for poor pregnancy outcomes like stillbirth and low birth weight. TheNational Mortality Followback Surveyattempted to find factors that affected mortality, like socioeconomic status, disability of use of...
So many women are navigating the harrowing transition from ~if you let a man within three feet of you, you will get pregnant and your life will be over~ to ~on the third full moon of the year on a breezeless night, you have a 2 percent chance of conceiv
Moreover, the mortality rate for infants in the foundling home was 37%, while in the nursery group, no child had died. Spitz used the term “hospitalism” to describe the syndrome of poor physical and mental development and high mortality experienced by institutionalized children. It took some...
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“the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.” Health equity is when “everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being.” What does “full potential” mean?
This does not mean that those with less capacity have no moral obligations at all. It only means that the moral responsibility to address global health issues will be proportional to the current abilities of each moral agent, given the immediacy and urgency that such global health emergencies ...
Healthy Eating Rocks! For the Truth About What You're Eating Search Animal Protein Linked with an Increased Risk of Dying Posted onAugust 3, 2016 Reply I know that people on the low-carb or Paleo diets don’t want to hear this, but the source of your protein really does matter. This ...