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Infant mortality is a major issue the world struggles with. Today, with advances in medicine and technology, the infant mortality rate decreases every year. However, in the past and in other developing countries, access to resources necessary to having and raising a healthy child are not available. In the article “Death Without Weeping”, the author, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, discusses about her time spent at Alto do Cruzeiro, Brazil. Hughes goes on to explain why the infant mortality rate was high in Alto do Cruzeiro. She also discusses how the women and children are treated in the community.

There is a very low infant mortality rate, 2.8 in a thousand, and a relatively low birth rate as well, at 7.41 births in a thousand. However, the death rate, 9.83 deaths in a thousand, is

Alexandra Tsiaras came up with a phenomenal way of describing conception to birth in his interview he did for Ted Talk. There were several things and little details that I truthfully did not know happened so fast during a woman’s pregnancy. It amazes me how people can go through with abortion after watching a video like Conception to Birth. Alexandra Tsiara’s visuals on conception to birth show a whole new outline of how fast a baby becomes a human, and that makes it that much more precious.

Infant mortality rate constitutes the death of a baby before their first birthday. Mortality rates around the world differ tremendously with America leading the first world countries at an alarming rate of 6.1 deaths per 1,000 births. Conversely, Finland and Japan secure the last, most desirable position, with deaths totaling 2.3 per 1,000 births, as of 2010. (Ovaska-Few, 2015) In 2014, over 23,000 babies died in the United States. (CDC, 2016) Exploring the mortality rates in America brings light to a dire need for additional interventions and research as to why this developing nation has the highest rate of infant deaths before the age of 1 year old. African Americans face the worst outcomes of infant death compared to whites, Latino, and their Native American peers in North Carolina. (Ovaska-Few, 2015) This paper will explore why African American are the leading race for infant mortality and the steps that health communities need to take to address this devastating occurrence.

13. Impoverished children who live in developing countries have a high risk of dying from

When looking at infant mortality rates in the lowest class evidence shows that double the amount of babies die in comparison to the highest class this can be linked to poverty the poorer you are the worse your chances are even at birth. These following factors increase the risk of infant death; the age of the mother aged less than 18 years is the highest and the lowest for mothers between 30 and 34. With the high teenage pregnancy epidemic and women from lower social class background the most at risk from losing their baby.

According to Healthy People 2020, "Improving the well-being of mothers, infants, and children, is an important public health goal for the United States. Their well-being determines the health of the next generation and can help predict future public health challenges for families, communities, and the health care system" (Healthy People 2020, 2015). Infant mortality is defined as the death of an infant before his or her first birthday, while fetal mortality is defined as the intrauterine death of a fetus at any gestational age (MMRW, 2013 and MacDorman, Kirmeyer & Wilson, 2012). In the United States an estimated 13,000 fetal deaths occurred ≥ 28 weeks gestation making up 28% of all perinatal deaths in 2006, the latest year with available national data (Lee,

There are approximately 353,000 children born every day. A handful of these children are born and end up leaving prodigious legacies behind... but what about the rest? Imagine… it's 2:54 in the morning and for some this would be the greatest time in their life, being that their child will be born into the world. For Jess, a soon-to-be parent,knows that having a baby will wipe away her savings in the blink of an eye. With the father of the child nowhere to be found, what kind of life would this newborn baby and mother have? What would their quality of life be? Jess knows she could give up the baby, but the thought of knowing her child is living in a world without her takes as much away from her as keeping the child would. If the clock could

Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) (2011) Saving mothers’ lives; reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006-2008. BJOG 18(1): 1-203. London. Blackwell Synergy.

Since 1998, in the United States alone, 738 children have lost their lives due to getting

What an interesting concept for a film / documentary. Following the lives of four babies, this documentary eschewed the routine and simply allowed the viewers to follow and observe the babies’ lives without the trappings of script and dialogue. In addition to simply sitting back and enjoying the movie, one could almost imagine themselves as a scientist conducting an observational experiment. The documentary followed the lives of Bayar, Hattie, Ponijao and Mari. They were born in Mongolia, The United States, Namibia and Japan respectively. The film followed the babies from birth through about the one year mark in essentially the same situations. As such, cultural differences were easily compared and contrasted. This review will be focused on addressing the following questions:

Hans Rosling is a medical doctor and statistician from Sweden. Hans taught ‘Global Development’ to Swedish undergraduates. In his video, Ted talk “the best stats you've ever seen” he focused on many of the common myths that people have about world. He starts off the video by talking about preconceived notions that his students had about the statistics of Child Mortality. He gave the students a pretest to predict which of 2 countries had worse child mortality rates.

The current death rate is 29 per 1,000 live births and of the 2.8 million newborns dying at birth worldwide, India accounts for 700,000 children dying at birth or shortly after. The National Health Policy to improve care children and women. Poor neonatal health conditions, widespread illiteracy, poverty, poor sanitation and nutrition have also been identified and India’s hopes to tackle these issues by passing this policy.

Throughout African countries, 16,000 babies and children are dying daily. This statistic is equivalent to eleven deaths occurring every minute, and these devastating numbers continue to increase yearly. However, catastrophic statistics in Africa can simply be decreased if hospitals utilize a baby hat mechanism called the Neopenda. Additionally, more than one million babies are currently dying the day they were born each year. Millions of babies die every year in Uganda, therefore the Neopenda device should be implemented to decrease this tragic problem.

The village gossip, Normala, spreads the news that Madhuri was murdered. She goes on to say that she saw Madhuri body before it was taken away and that her blood is unusual – it was white in colour. Normala believes this to be bad omen and says that something bad will befall the village and villagers and that they have all been “curse”.