childhood mortality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofchildhoodandmortality
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childhood
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/us/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/
the time when someone is ...
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mortality
noun[U]
uk/mɔːˈtæl.ə.ti/us/mɔːrˈtæl.ə.t̬i/
the way that people do not live ...
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(Definition ofchildhoodandmortalityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The third way in whichchildhoodmortalityaffects fertility is also mediated by rational choice.
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To summarize, from the beginning of the decline inchildhoodmortalityuntil 1960, mortality in childhood experienced a reduction of more than 85 per cent.
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Although the levels of mortality were not the same in the various countries, there are certain similarities in the general pattern of earlychildhoodmortality.
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Within these generally high levels of mortality,childhoodmortalitywas particularly high.
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During the past decades, several studies have also been made on the influence of water and sanitation interventions onchildhoodmortalityin contemporary developing countries.
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It is evident thatchildhoodmortalityconstitutes the major bulk of postnatal mortality.
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The decline inchildhoodmortalitytriggered further population growth by giving more people a chance to grow up and have their own children.
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Everywhere, however, declines in both types ofchildhoodmortalitywould be important.
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When the entirechildhoodmortalityexperience is included, the gap between declines in fertility and mortality is actually closer to twenty years.
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These results are problematic because they may bias the true effect of breast-feeding, resulting in inaccurate estimates of infant andchildhoodmortality.
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Many studies of earlychildhoodmortalityin developing countries do not analyse mortality by age of the child.
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Furthermore, although they continue to suffer, on the average, morechildhoodmortality, they still end up with a relatively higher number of children still living.
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It is unclear how muchchildhoodmortalityhad to decline before families realized its implications and acted upon them.
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This under-registration, not only of births but also of deaths, of the rural population caution against extending the analysis ofchildhoodmortalitybeyond 1960.
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The decline inchildhoodmortalityis the key cause of the rapid growth in life expectancy.
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Overallchildhoodmortalityhas decreased 98% over the last century.
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From the beginning of the twentieth century until 1916, before the appearance of the influenza pandemic of 1918,childhoodmortalityhad already been reduced by 21 per cent.
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It is very unlikely that this effect was ever very strong in ' natural fertility ' regimes, mainly because high and variable levels ofchildhoodmortalityleft little margin for choice.
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Throughout the demographic transition, moreover, there seems to have been an ongoing sensitivity of marital fertility tochildhoodmortality, though the lag was invariably different for each mortality indicator.
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