Perinatal mortality Essays

  • Perinatal Mortality

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    Perinatal mortality refers to the no of deaths in the first week of life and no of fetal deaths (stillbirths). Causes and determinants of neonatal deaths and stillbirths differ from those causing and contributing to post neonatal and child deaths. Neonatal deaths and stillbirths stem from poor maternal health, inadequate care during pregnancy, inappropriate management of complications during pregnancy and delivery, poor hygiene during delivery and the first critical hours after birth, and lack of

  • Population In Pakistan Essay

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    Population in Pakistan There are a lot of people out there in the world. I mean a lot. Do you ever come back to a crowded city after isolating yourself in the country and just stop and look around in amazement at how many people there are? You start watching them. You see one guy throw his litter on the ground. Idling cars spew their toxic fumes into your lungs. Behind you a guy with fake designer bags empties them on the street and says. Get them now. Only 300 rupees as dozens of pedestrians flock

  • Ethiopia: Maternal Mortality and the Access to Care

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    Ethiopia had more accessibility of the healthcare system more individuals could be taught how to practice safe health practices. In Ethiopia where HIV, and maternal and infant mortality rates are sky high, more education on the importance of using the healthcare system and makin... ... middle of paper ... ...ce of mortality, education can also be given to them about healthy child development and what to expect when they deliver their child. This can help reduce the amount of children becoming ill

  • Health Analysis: A SWOT Analysis Of The City

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    is much higher than the average Queens rate. • Asthma hospitalizations among children ages 5-14 are much higher than the rates in other Queens communities. • The top causes of death are heart disease and cancer. • Despite a decrease in infant mortality across the city, the rate in QV is still more than seven times higher than rates in the Upper East Side. Key Informant Interviews • Interview #1: On February 8th I interviewed a 72-year-old neighbor who has lived in this community his entire life

  • Evidence-based Practice in Nursing Care

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    for excellent outcomes. Nurses in Macedonia have experiencing a lot of success by putting into practice the updated knowledge about evidence based practice which improve their clinical performance, therefore, they have seen a significant drop in mortality for different health issues. Nurses must understand the development of an evidence base reinforced by the research is crucial before to reach any conclusions about any specific practices. Implementation must be applied to improve outcomes that are

  • Social Determinants Of Health: A Case Study

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    obtain any social mobility, and lastly without the proper infrastructure, there is little that can be done to reduce the infant mortality rate (p. 6-8). In relation, Narayan Sastry found through her studies of studying urban and rural child infant mortality in 1997 that, those community characteristics have a strong impact but do not directly have an effect Infant mortality in Brazil (p. 999-1001). In simpler terms, there are SDH that are not examined that have greater impacts but are not implemented

  • Suicide In Nepal Essay

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    According to a Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) study of 2008/09 done by the ministry of health and population in Nepal, suicide was found to be the leading cause of death among the Nepalese women. Nepal is a landlocked country with the population of 26.5 million among whom 51.5% are female while 48.5% are male (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2011) . Nepal offers a variety of diversity in regards to its religion, values, ethnicities, and geography, which have a huge impact on the socio-economic status

  • Infant Mortality as Measure of Economic Development

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    indicate another possible index of measurement for economic development – the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). Several researchers contend that the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) should be a basis in determining the country’s economic status. These two methods differ in many ways. Each mentioned index has respective processes to follow and to come up with an accurate data and is used in their respective rights. Infant mortality rate is basically mentioned in health and demography while GDP more on financial

  • Problems in LEDC Cities

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    makeshift homes on just 6 per cent of the city's residential land area. The shanty towns are built on any spare land such as swamps or even rubbish tips, this promotes major heath issues to the people who live there which is probably why infant mortality rates are so high in these shanty town areas. Most dwellings have just one room and in the average household there will be four or five people living there. The shanty towns lack basic amenities such as electricity, gas, drainage, running water

  • Critical Analysis Of Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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    Cruzeiro and their children with emphasis on how “some of them managed to stay alive” and what, to an outsider, appeared to be the casual indifference to the death of children. Her key statement for me was; “societies characterized by high child mortality and by a correspondingly high….fertility, cultural practices of infant and child care tend to be organized primarily around survival goals.” It was in other words a survival strategy for the mothers. In the end she concludes that the mothers keep

  • Etiological Factors For Maternal Mortality

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    maternal morbidity and mortality include hemorrhage, infection, obstructed labor, risky abortions, and indirect causes, such as malaria and HIV. With a growing knowledge of sterilization, and advent of antibiotics, the Global North experienced a major drop in maternal mortality and morbidity. In 2009, the US maternal mortality ratio was 24/per 100,000 live births, 10 times lower than global averages, 260. Off the US coast, the island nation of Haiti’s maternal mortality ratio is 300 per 100,000

  • Maternal Infant And Child Health Essay

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    Maternal health aims in achieving the highest quality of life for women throughout their childbearing years. Maternal mortality rate, according to our book, is the death of a woman during pregnancy and/or 48 hours post-pregnancy. Based on our book, the U.S. maternal mortality rate is 9.1 deaths per 100,000 live births. Consequently, the U.S. falls behind compared to other industrialized nations. In fact, the surprising information was that black

  • Wgu Community Statistics Assignment

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    risk of death among heroin addicts in Columbus Ohio, related to an epidemic as evidenced by the number of overdoses occurring in Ohio, as it leads the nation in deaths. Priority Community Health Nursing Diagnoses #2 High risk of black infant mortality in Columbus Ohio related to inability to access healthcare as evidence by the rate of black babies that are born alive compared to the birth rate of white babies born alive. For example: Risks of asthma complications among children in a southeast

  • Child and Infant Mortality Rate in Afghanistan

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    war and a country in devastation. Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest infant mortality rates and the world’s highest birth rates. Because of the high infant mortality rates, they also have many problems in health, sanitation, and a lack of food they have. Because of poor health and sanitation in the country of Afghanistan, the Afghanis have many sicknesses and diseases. Sickness causes high infant mortality rates. The diseases that cause high death rates are bacterial and protozoal diarrhea

  • Frankenstein Birth Myth Essay

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    In 1985, Moer coined the term ‘birth myth’ to describe Frankenstein as a “woman’s book” about post-natal depression (79), and this idea has since been developed upon. However, the tradition of understanding Frankenstein as a ‘birth myth’ has been primarily considered in light of the biographical details of Mary Shelley’s life and their correspondence with her work. Particular attention has been given to the impact of her mother’s death shortly after Shelley’s birth and the subsequent trauma of the

  • Childhood Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England

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    Childhood Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England The issue of childhood mortality is written into the works of Gaskell and Dickens with alarming regularity. In Mary Barton, Alice tells Mary and Margaret that before Will was orphaned, his family had buried his six siblings. There is also the death of the Wilson twins, as well as Tom Barton's early death --an event which inspires his father John to fight for labor rights because he's certain his son would have survived if he'd had better food

  • Romanticism in Katherine Anne Porter’s Old Mortality

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    Romanticism in Katherine Anne Porter’s Old Mortality Katherine Anne Porter’s characters in “Old Mortality” make contradicting statements throughout the story with their personalities as much as their words. Eva, the “Old Maid,” symbolizes aging, and the hardships and pain that can be associated with it. Amy can be thought of as her foil, because she seems to represent the antithesis of Eva in every way. Frozen in time with her premature death, Amy remains for the older members of the family the

  • Significance To The Convention On The Rights Of The Child?

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    correlation between breastfeeding and good health. Breastfeeding is one of the strongest defenses against disease. Consequently, only a few are ever breastfed. The progress of breastfeeding in West and Central Africa is low.” Figure four showed how mortality rates declined in all regions. Figure five showed how, “Measles immunization coverage improved in 1990, but is still lagging in some regions. Deaths from measles were reduced by 80 percent between the years of 2000-2013. The Measles vaccine coverage

  • Getting Enough Sleep

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    also society. In 1959, The American Cancer society surveyed more than 1 million Americans about their sleeping habits. Conclusions drawn from the study showed that people who got less than 7-8 hours of sleep on average per night, had a higher mortality rate. A six year follow-up was done to the people surveyed. The results showed that men 30 years old or older that got 4 hours of sleep a night had more than double the risk of dying than men who averaged 7-8 hours. The risk was only about 1.5 times

  • Discovering Mortality in Once More to the Lake

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    Discovering Mortality in Once More to the Lake E. B. White's story "Once More to the Lake" is about a man who revisits a lake from his childhood to discover that his life has lost placidity.  The man remembers his childhood as he remembers the lake; peaceful and still.  Spending time at the lake as an adult has made the man realize that his life has become unsettling and restless, like the tides of the ocean.  Having brought his son to this place of the past with him, the man makes inevitable