It’s tempting to see heatwaves as indiscriminate forces, touching all under the same sun. But that view wilfully ignores a ...

(Perrone, 4/1) Stat: PRAMS Maternal Mortality Database In Limbo As CDC Staff Placed On Leave As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, the ...

Heartfelt salutations on the 300th birth anniversary of the virtuous Lokmata Devi Ahilyabai Holkar - the article is written ...

"Our infant mortality rate is shameful, just shameful. And we’ve been talking about this for a long time. How is it that we’re still at the bottom? How is it that Black maternal health ... Children ...

The urgency for funding cannot be overstated in the light of the recently reported stagnation in the reduction of global maternal mortality ratio. Immediate funding support is required to initiate ...

The introduction of a pregnancy checkbox on death certificates was associated with an increase in reported maternal mortality of 6.78 deaths per 100,000 livebirths. HealthDay News — Maternal deaths ...

reported a neonatal mortality rate of 6.9 per 1,000 live births—well below the SDG benchmark of 12—and a maternal mortality ratio of 53 per 100,000, nearing the global target of 70. Stillbirths, ...

Data were entered in Excel worksheets. Mortality rates for each of the three cardiovascular diseases for each age category of both sexes were calculated based on the following formula: Mortality rate ...

Inequalities exist within countries—for example, in the United States, the maternal mortality ratio for black women was over three times that of white women in 2023 (50.3/100 000 live births v ...

Similarly, Uttar Pradesh’s infant mortality ratio (IMR)—which is the number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births—stood at 37, compared to 38 in 2020. Bihar’s ...

The equipment aims to improve maternal health services in local health centres. Dr. Lazaro Mborwa, Buyinza Health Centre IV in-charge, said the facility has seen a surge in childbirths ...