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2 unusual facts about infant mortality


Emperor tamarin

Infant mortality in the wild is at its most highest during the first 5-15 weeks of their lives when the begin to first move around and explore on their own, this is because one of the greatest threats to infant survival is falling from the canopy.

Lactation suppression

After birth, some women may desire to stop the production of breast milk, for example when the mother wishes to bottle-feed from birth onwards, or in the case when the infant dies or is surrendered at birth.


Archiater

The most famous archiater has been Arvo Ylppö, who pioneered pediatrics in the country and is credited for the enormous reduction of infant mortality to the modern, very low levels.

George Grote

He settled in 1820 in a house attached to the bank in Threadneedle Street, where his only child died a week after its birth.

Italian Hospital of Montevideo

The initial objective of the institution created under the supervision and direction of the italo-Uruguayan architect Luis Andreoni, was to provide basic health services, to confront the high percentage of infant mortality, product of the scarcity of resources and of public access to hospitals.

Poverty in Australia

The term 'absolute poverty', when used in this fashion, is usually synonymous with 'extreme poverty': Robert McNamara, the former President of the World Bank, described absolute or extreme poverty as, "...a condition so limited by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality, and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency".


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John O. Agwunobi

His department's many successes included responses to West Nile virus, SARS, other infectious disease outbreaks, efforts to decrease the state's infant mortality rate, lowering tobacco use among young Floridians, addressing racial and ethnic health disparities, and improving overall access to medical and dental care.

Morris Sheppard

Co-sponsored by Morris Sheppard and Horace Mann Towner, the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 provided Federal matching funds for services aimed to reduce maternal and infant mortality.