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In four random countries in which the average annual income ranged, in 1990, from $660, to $1,727, to $3,795, to $11,422, infant mortality ranged from 114, to 66, to 34, to 9 (per thousand).
As income doubles, infant survival tends to rise proportionately, a trend reflected in other measures of health and of wealth.
Clinical trials for an HIV vaccine started at the end of 2017, while doctors in South Africa reported curing a young boy of the disease after he received treatments as an infant.
Would it not be wiser to give a helping hand to the infant state, turning hostility into friendship and thus securing the future presence of Serbs in Kosovo?
Consider infant mortality.
In Mozambique, the figure is 120 infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.
Three things:First, we know that giving birth for the first time when younger carries a cost in increased infant mortality, but modern medicine and hygiene have strikingly reduced infant mortality, reducing the cost of younger age at first birth.
In Albania, instead of developing and strengthening our infant democratic institutions, the OSCE, in its desire to see its policies implemented, often seeks to bypass or override them.
And while the Millennium Development Goals have produced remarkable progress in key areas – including education, infant mortality, and diseases like malaria and tuberculosis – there is still a long way to go.
Here the international community will have to help, for just as Southeast Asia's economies needed some protection for their infant industries, so Africa's may also need a brief respite from the whip of the global market during the first stage of building the AU.
This simple idea has been applied to myriad human development issues – from public health to infant mortality.
In particular, allowing women to decide if, when, and how often they become pregnant leads to fewer deaths in childbirth and fewer infant deaths.
The EITC has a proven record of success in encouraging work, reducing poverty, boosting educational attainment, increasing intergenerational mobility, and improving maternal and infant health.
This infant democracy was harshly interrupted when martial law was imposed in December 1981, with Solidarity outlawed and dissidents arrested.
Any government expects its popularity to erode, especially in a society with as many intractable problems as Venezuela: unemployment, crime, high infant mortality and so on.
After all, the Founding Fathers were keen on redesigning the infant American economy.
And he and his Federalist colleagues, including John Adams, believed strongly in providing infant industries with room to grow – even using money from the Department of War to fund experiments in high-tech industry.
And sustained government investment in public health is reflected in steady improvement in India’s infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy.
For example, the nine states that the government has labeled “high focus” account for 62% of India’s maternal deaths and 70% of infant deaths, but contain only 48% of the country’s population.
Similarly, while infant deaths account for less than 5% of all deaths in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, more than 20% of babies born in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan (all high-focus states) do not see their first birthday.
The measures that the mission has implemented since 2005 – including free contraception, pregnancy tracking, prenatal care, compensation for hospital delivery, and regular home visits to new mothers – contributed to a 20% drop in fertility rates in the targeted states by 2010, and helped to reduce maternal and infant deaths.
Poor states that spend public money more wisely improved people's lives quite quickly: Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan illustrate the value of better governance;Other measures of development, such as the Indian Human Development Index (which includes literacy, infant mortality, access to safe water and durably constructed housing, as well as formal education, poverty ratios, and per capita expenditure), do not show increased inequality;Exclusive focus on the states ignores problems that are concentrated at lower levels: available evidence, albeit limited, suggests that decentralizing policy-making power that is currently exercised at the state level could lead to further improvement in overall economic performance.
Moreover, increased openness to trade is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and higher life expectancy, especially in developing countries.
These findings, combined with the immature anatomy of the infant dura, suggest that dural bleeding in young babies may be a natural protective device – a reservoir to prevent backflow into the brain’s blood vessels during the pressure fluctuations of normal labor and delivery.
Sustained economic growth is essential to maintain progress on reducing poverty, infant mortality, disease, and malnutrition.
But these infant giants are quickly threatened with eclipse by even newer enterprises.
We have continued to see meaningful reductions in infant mortality and malnutrition, and there have been massive strides toward eradication of polio, measles, malaria, and illiteracy.
If women had universal access to voluntary family-planning information and services, maternal deaths could be reduced by as much as three-quarters and infant deaths by as much as a fifth.
My own laboratory, for example, is building a Web site which, based on Google maps, uses society’s digital trail to map poverty, infant mortality, crime rates, changes in GDP, and other social indicators, neighborhood by neighborhood – all of which will be updated daily.
In China, this would represent a significant shift from prevailing conditions, in which the children of poor households, especially in rural areas, lag in terms of nutrition and school enrollment, despite significant progress in recent decades on lowering infant mortality and raising educational attainment.
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