Millions of baby deaths preventable, Save the Children says

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Millions of baby deaths preventable, Save the Children says - World - CBC News

By country, first-day deaths occur most in India (more than 300,000 each year), while the highest first-day death rate is in Somalia (18 per 1,000 live births). Luxembourg, Singapore and Sweden have the lowest death rate (less than 0.5 per 1,000 live births).

Although first-day mortality is most severe in the developing world, Save the Children notes that among industrialized countries the U.S. has by far the highest newborn mortality, with 60 per cent of first-day deaths but only 38 per cent of live births. Some U.S. counties have first-day death rates similar to those in developing countries, the report says.

The U.S. pre-term birth rate is the second-highest in the world, and complications from premature births are the cause of more than 35 per cent of newborn deaths in the U.S. The U.S. has the highest adolescent birth rate of any industrialized country, and teen mothers tend to be poorer, less educated and receive less pre-natal care.

SO - let's do like the Tea Party morons want - ELIMINATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Let's do like the evangelical's want - ELIMINATE ALL FORMS OF BIRTH CONTROL

What shit heads these people are.

 

[eryximachus]

Come on.

The problem is the US imports boatloads of third worlders with sub-normal IQs. Where are those countries with third world level infant mortality rates? I guarantee you they aren't in Maine, Washington, or North Dakota.

Newsflash: when you allow millions of foreigners into your country, they bring with them all their problems. They don't magically become enlightened liberals who dutifully take birth control, eat rice cakes and veggie burgers, and yearn to drive a prius.

 

[nuncaquite]

I dont know man, Im not a smart guy. It does seem however that statistics can be made to point in whichever direction the author wants them to point.
Also, the same question can be ask in many forms to obtain different answers.
Most of these countries speak different languages. This can hinder the search for the truth. If indeed there was ever a search for the truth.

I have lived in a few third world countries and seen stats used to obtain aid (money) from the first world. The stats will always lead in the direction of money.
Its a racket: Do you want positive or negative stats this year to give me money?
India has socialized health care..

 

[eryximachus]

I'm sorry, but there are over 200 countries on this earth. This is not some vast conspiracy.

Infant mortality is really a pointless measure anyway. Babies die. It's part of life. The dysgenic trend, in part, is hastened by efforts to "save the children", whose genetic defects would have prevented their reproduction just a generation or two ago. Now, they breed in large numbers.

 

[Stretch]

Evangelicals want everyone to keep it in their pants unless they want kids. Discipline. What a novel concept.

Let's do like the evangelical's want - ELIMINATE ALL FORMS OF BIRTH CONTROL

What shit heads these people are.

 

[tanuki]

Ah, Somalia. Too bad Clintoon didn't level that place after American boys were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.

When it comes to helping poor people, it doesn't work. I remember watching an episode of Bourdain's No Reservations. He saw starving kids in Haiti were he was eating and bought out the entire days worth of food. Tried to distribute it and a riot nearly broke out. Bigger kids took control and established their power dominance. It was a microcosm of the real world warlords and the people they dominate.

Frankly I don't care. Most of these kids are born into a society where they have no chance. I assure you we're not saving the next Oppenheimer or Einstein.

 

[Dr JIM]

Planned parenthood has been around for YEARS, and they have had NO impact on the IMR.

Teens have difficulties for a multitude of reasons from drugs, alcohol, social issues, lack of effectively consistent parental support etc. Teens most often have "unplanned pregnancies" because of immaturity, low self esteem, diminished parental involvement etc.

Why would anyone believe they will suddenly and consistently make the RIGHT decision for the next NINE MONTHS and pursue prenatal care.

Jim

 

[Kamala]

Planned parenthood has been around for YEARS, and they have had NO impact on the IMR.

Teens have difficulties for a multitude of reasons from drugs, alcohol, social issues, lack of effectively consistent parental support etc. Teens most often have "unplanned pregnancies" because of immaturity, low self esteem, diminished parental involvement etc.

Why would anyone believe they will suddenly and consistently make the RIGHT decision for the next NINE MONTHS and pursue prenatal care.

Jim

I don't know about the IMR, but sex education and access to reliable birth control has had a tremendous effect on lowering the teen pregnancy rate. It is very unfortunate that certain religios groups want to bring things back to the stone age.
There's no doubt that a lot of social factors are involved in teen pregnancy, but at the end of the day the numbers would be very high in adults if they had no access to birth control or education.

We don't expect adults to abstain, so why would we expect kids with higher hormonal levels and limited foresight to abstain?

 

[Kamala]

I dont know man, Im not a smart guy. It does seem however that statistics can be made to point in whichever direction the author wants them to point.
Also, the same question can be ask in many forms to obtain different answers.
Most of these countries speak different languages. This can hinder the search for the truth. If indeed there was ever a search for the truth.

I have lived in a few third world countries and seen stats used to obtain aid (money) from the first world. The stats will always lead in the direction of money.
Its a racket: Do you want positive or negative stats this year to give me money?
India has socialized health care..

Some of the lowest rates are in nations with "socialized" healthcare too...... They generally have a longer life expectancy too.

Numbers can no dount be manipulated, I guess it depends on the neutrality of the source.

 

[nuncaquite]

Some of the lowest rates are in nations with "socialized" healthcare too...... They generally have a longer life expectancy too.
Numbers can no dount be manipulated, I guess it depends on the neutrality of the source.

I dont doubt that you are probably correct. Which countries do you speak of? Other than socialized med, what else do these countries have in common?

No doubt the numbers are alway manipulated and there is no neutrality when a survey or study takes place.

 

[Dr JIM]

One can always find exceptions to any rule, but the notion "formalized religion" interests lie in controlling teen sexual activity as an ends unto itself, I believe for the most part, is bogus. (Of course there's always some "nut off the farm" whom receives considerable media attention because of their idiotic extremist views)

However since the overwhelming majority of "traditional" US faith based groups large and small, believe "life begins at conception" their modus operandi has morphed into an effort to decrease abortions ESPECIALLY as a form of hap-hazard birth control.


Jim

 

[Kamala]

One can always find exceptions to any rule, but the notion "formalized religion" interests lie in controlling teen sexual activity as an ends unto itself, I believe for the most part, is bogus. (Of course there's always some "nut off the farm" whom receives considerable media attention because of their idiotic extremist views)

However since the overwhelming majority of "traditional" US faith based groups large and small, believe "life begins at conception" their modus operandi has morphed into an effort to decrease abortions ESPECIALLY as a form of hap-hazard birth control.


Jim

The idea of someone being strongly against abortion, and yet be strongly against birth control still baffles my mind

 

[Kamala]

I dont doubt that you are probably correct. Which countries do you speak of? Other than socialized med, what else do these countries have in common?

No doubt the numbers are alway manipulated and there is no neutrality when a survey or study takes place.

I guess that i was trying to point out that Government run, or "socialized" medicine has similar and sometimes better numbers.
It certainly isn't perfect, but it's not the end of the world as some would have you believe.

 

[nuncaquite]

I guess that i was trying to point out that Government run, or "socialized" medicine has similar and sometimes better numbers.
It certainly isn't perfect, but it's not the end of the world as some would have you believe.

I googled the subject just for kicks. "Pretty much" all low infant mortality rate countries in the world are european or of european decent. This may be more
a matter of culture than of health care payment structure.