Fertility INDICATORS Crude Birth Rate (CBR) Definition: number of live births per 100 people per year Strength: Quick and easy way of measuring and comparing fertility between different countries. Data required is usually readily available. Limitation: Does not take into account sex composition and age structure of the population Age-Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR) Definition: annual number of live births per 1‚000 women in particular age groups (usually in 5-year bands: 15-19
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Thermoregulation is a critical physiological function that is closely associated with the neonate’s survival. Extremely low birth weight infants have inefficient thermoregulation due to immaturity and care giver procedures such as umbilical line insertions‚ intubations‚ and chest xrays can lead to heat loss as well. As a result‚ infants may exhibit cold body temperatures after birth and during their first 12 hours of life. Thermoregulation plays a unique and crucial role in the nurturing and development
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To validate that Confidentiality is kept‚ this report will be referring to the child as Target Child (TC) following the Data Protection Act 1998 and Children Act 2004. The report is aimed at the the child at the practitioners Primary School Setting. When all four observations we conducted TC is 60 months. TC transferred form a Private School Setting and into a Main stream setting and started in January. TC lives at home with his Mother‚ Father and younger brother. TC has settled into the School and
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1LT LYANN G ESCLARES 0-141496 NC 2014 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Pregnancy is one of the most risky events in a woman’s life. During the ancient times‚ delivery of the fetus was the very cause of mortality and morbidity among women and infants. Most of the pregnant mothers‚ during those years have their domiciliary midwifery or delivery at home. Many years have passed before the discovery of medicines‚ instruments and procedures that could be used. These discoveries
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because they don’t want that their baby would be same after them. What Age they considered as early pregnancy? It is 15 years old and below. Because it have a high rate of infant mortality which is 13 per1000 live births‚ very low birthweigth =24 and very preterm delivery = 43. Compare to 16-19 years old infant mortality = 8‚ very low birthweight = 15 and very preterm delivery = 22. So this analysis signified that 15 years old and below considered early pregnancy. Background Why
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Maternal mortality has recently been included among the Millennium Development Goals (MDG 5). In spite of national efforts‚ Tanzania has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios (MMR) in Sub – Saharan Africa‚ with national estimates as high as 1100 in 1995 at the time of the present study‚ increasing to 1500 per 100‚000 live births in 2006. Statistically‚ maternal mortality contributes to only 2.3 percent of the total mortality. Still births make up 6.7 percent of total mortality. There are
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Baby Dumping http://www.scribd.com/doc/37842406/Baby-Dumping Meaning-Dumping baby means that the acts of throw away the babies at any places without take care the babies. Star online-Anyone who dumps a baby causing the child to die can be tried for murder and sentenced to death‚ the Cabinet has decided. It has agreed to the proposal by the Women‚ Family and Community Development Ministry over the issue because incidents of baby dumping were still rampant in the country‚ minister Datuk
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Epidemiology is the study of disease in groups or populations through the collection of data and information‚ to identify patterns and causes. The measures of epidemiology are: Mortality- refers to the number of deaths in a given population from a particular cause and/or over a period of time. Infant Mortality- refers to the number of infant deaths in the first year of life‚ per 1‚000 live births. Morbidity- is the incidence or level of illness‚ disease or injury in a given population. Life Expectancy- is
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stages of the humans life‚ these developmental issues cause severe mental retardation and physical defects or abnormalities in other body parts of that person. Patau syndrome occurs in approximately one out of every ten-thousand to sixteen thousand infants born. The disorder is primarily not an inherited trait‚ being caused by random events in the formation of the sperm and egg of healthy parents. Because of the many severe defects entailed to babies born with the disease‚ many do not survive past the
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States Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia is one of the leading cause of lung disease in low very birth weight infants(VLBW). Infants with BPD had higher rates of mental retardation‚ associated with greater neurologic and social risk. Baraldi.E‚Filippone.M(2007)‚ mentioned that Northway et al(1967) described firstly that Brochopulmonary Dysplasia is a new chronic respiratory disease developed in premature infants exposed to mechanical ventilation and oxygen supplement. They also suggesting that lifelong consequences
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