Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health data

Patton, George C.; Coffey, Carolyn; Sawyer, Susan Μ; Viner, Russell; Haller, Dagmar M.; Bose, Krishna; Vos, Theo; Ferguson, Jane; Mathers, Colin

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(09)60741-8

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“…Maternal mortality is significantly higher in rural areas and in poorer communities, but these figures are not just related to geographic or economic situations where disease, diet and medicine are different from in the developed world. They are also the result of cultural circumstance, with complications in pregnancy as the highest cause of death among adolescent girls because of a preference for early fertility (Conde-Agudelo, Belizán and Lammers 2004; Patton et al 2009). …”

Section: Female Fertility and Mortuary Statisticsmentioning

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Reconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England

Sayer¹,

Dickinson²

2013

World Archaeology

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Little has been written about female fertility and maternal mortality from an archaeological perspective. Typically debates focus on the physical aspects of childbirth, ignoring an obvious truth: the biggest single cause of death for women was childbirth. Whether death took place as a result of mechanical malpresentation, infection or blood loss, the root cause was undeniable. In this article we argue that post-mortem extrusion is improbable and that young infants and women found buried together are likely to have died together. However, most deaths would not have been simultaneous and so we build on demographic data to conclude that the early Anglo-Saxons engaged institutions which controlled female sexuality. Late marriage, cultural and legal taboos and an emphasis on mature fertility acted to limit the probability of death; however, the risk to the individual was real and each funerary party was the agent that constructed death ways to manage loss.

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Section: Female Fertility and Mortuary Statisticsmentioning

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Reconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England

Sayer¹,

Dickinson²

2013

World Archaeology

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“…Of these, 97% were in the developing world [4]. The countries with the top 30 infant mortality rates in the world are all in Africa.…”

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Paediatric radiology seen from Africa. Part I: providing diagnostic imaging to a young population

et al. 2011

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Paediatric radiology requires dedicated equipment, specific precautions related to ionising radiation, and specialist knowledge. Developing countries face difficulties in providing adequate imaging services for children. In many African countries, children represent an increasing proportion of the population, and additional challenges follow from extreme living conditions, poverty, lack of parental care, and exposure to tuberculosis, HIV, pneumonia, diarrhoea and violent trauma. Imaging plays a critical role in the treatment of these children, but is expensive and difficult to provide. The World Health Organisation initiatives, of which the World Health Imaging System for Radiography (WHIS-RAD) unit is one result, needs to expand into other areas such as the provision of maintenance servicing. New initiatives by groups such as Rotary and the World Health Imaging Alliance to install WHIS-RAD units in developing countries and provide digital solutions, need support. Paediatric radiologists are needed to offer their services for reporting, consultation and quality assurance for free by way of teleradiology. Societies for paediatric radiology are needed to focus on providing a volunteer teleradiology reporting group, information on child safety for basic imaging, guidelines for investigations specific to the disease spectrum, and solutions for optimising imaging in children.

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“…1 The causes of adolescent death include communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and lower respiratory-tract infection) and non-communicable diseases related to problem behaviours (motor vehicle fatalities, violence, self-harm, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and risky sex leading to early or unintended pregnancy). Further, adolescence, partitioned into early (11-13 years), middle (14-18 years), and late (19-24 years) by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2 is a common period for the onset of symptoms and behaviours that lead to disorders in adulthood.…”

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Worldwide application of prevention science in adolescent health

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The burden of morbidity and mortality from non-communicable disease has risen worldwide and is accelerating in low-income and middle-income countries, whereas the burden from infectious diseases has declined. Since this transition, the prevention of non-communicable disease as well as communicable disease causes of adolescent mortality has risen in importance. Problem behaviours that increase the short-term or long-term likelihood of morbidity and mortality, including alcohol,

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Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health data

Cited by 1,022 publications

References 45 publications

Reconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England

Reconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England

Paediatric radiology seen from Africa. Part I: providing diagnostic imaging to a young population

Worldwide application of prevention science in adolescent health

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