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...causes of newborn death, from the obvious, like malnutrition, to the surprising, like the habit of expectant Gond mothers of starving themselves and their unborn child for an easier birth. The Bangs found no problems that couldn't be treated by a health worker with rudimentary skills, some infant sleeping bags and an abacus on which to record every 10 heartbeats...
...riders carrying medicines across roadless stretches of Uganda, the survivor of the refugee camps fighting TB in Cambodia, the rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar to deliver care village by village, risking arrest if they are found...
Although still in this infant stage, Benowitz’s hard work has already paid off: the dressage team had its first competition last weekend, in which she placed sixth in the introductory level, and co-captain Jennifer Anttonen placed third in the training level...
...health care by 2065. Olden observed that General Motors, for example, spends more money on health care for its employees than on steel for its cars. Despite high funding, American health care delivery ranked 37th in the WHO survey. Forty-one countries surveyed have better infant mortality rates than the U.S. If the nation’s infant mortality rate were as low as Cuba’s, 2,212 babies would be saved annually. “The major contributor to the high cost of health care and the inefficiency in the system has to do with the individualized...
...subject of immunization focused primarily on the benefits to physical health but failed to quantify the programs’ economic impact. “The long-term productivity effects of immunization that we estimate are in addition to the direct health benefits in the form of reduced infant mortality and illness,” Canning said. The model proposed in the study added childhood health as a component of the capital variable in the production function. As a result, vaccination efforts, in addition to improving health, spurred long-term economic growth through increased productivity.The first part of the study analyzed...