Reaching the millennium development goal for child mortality : improving equity and efficiency in Ecuador's health budget [PDF]
health care; infant mortality; health policy;
Cuesta, J.D. +4 more
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Nanomaterial‐based immune therapeutic strategies in neurodegenerative diseases
BMEMat, EarlyView.This review highlights the immunomodulatory potential of nanomaterials (NMs) in treating neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). It focuses on their roles in regulating innate and adaptive immune responses to maintain immune homeostasis. By providing insights into these mechanisms, the review lays the groundwork for innovative NMs therapeutic strategies to ...
Xinru Zhou +6 more
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Infant and child mortality in Afghanistan: A scoping review
Health Science ReportsBackground and Aims Since 1990, global child and infant mortality rates have typically stabilized or decreased due to improved healthcare, vaccination rollouts, and international funding.
Khulud Qamar +5 more
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Timing impact assessment for COAG Closing the Gap targets: child mortality [PDF]
This report outlines the main drivers impacting on the Council of Australian Governments target to halve the gap in child mortality within a decade. Summary In 2008, one of the 6 Closing the Gap targets agreed by the Council of Australian Governments ...
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GOVERNOR O’MALLEY AND LT. GOVERNOR BROWN ANNOUNCE MARYLAND INFANT MORTALITY RATE DROPS FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW [PDF]
, 2011 Governor Martin O‟Malley today joined by Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and other state and local officials, announced that Maryland‟s infant mortality rate has dropped substantially for a second consecutive
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
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Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 and infant mortality in the first six months of life, in the era of Option B Plus combination antiretroviral therapy [PDF]
, 2021 Lynn S. Zijenah +4 more
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Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 [PDF]
This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large portion of the racial gap in ...
Melissa A. Thomasson, William J. Collins
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The effect of distance to health-care facilities on childhood mortality in rural Burkina Faso.
, 2011 This study aims to investigate the relation between distance to health facilities, measured as continuous travel time, and mortality among infants and children younger than 5 years of age in rural Burkina Faso, an area with low health facility density ...
Akello +32 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson +9 more
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