Unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion are common in Kenya, leading to high levels unplanned births and avoidable maternal injury and death. Until recently, abortion was only legally permissible to save the life of a woman, but a new constitution adopted in 2010 includes language that makes abortion available to protect a woman's health.

Perinatal mortality is high in rural hospitals in South Africa. In part this is due to less than optimal care. This study determined the perinatal mortality experienced by a rural hospital and its clinics. Avoidable causes of death are described and various intervention strategies that effectively and rapidly prevented such deaths, reducing perinatal mortality by one-third, are outlined.

Death from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is still the leading cause of death in Germany. About 271 people per ten thousand died of stroke and 179 of heart attack in 2008, both contributing to a combined percentage of about 37% of all deaths [1]. Well established risk factors for CVD include life style factors such as smoking, obesity, lack of physical activity, and diet factors [2]. More recent...

With the increase in jogging and distance running as a means of attaining and maintaining fitness, and in the light of the difficulty in advising certain groups of patients about their capacity for such exercise, we report on several potentially avoidable factors in the death of a 45 year old Sheffield Marathon runner in June 1983.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To estimate trends of fetal (FMR) and neonatal (NMR) mortality rates due to avoidable causes maternal education in the city Rio de Janeiro (2000–2018). Methods: Ecological time series study. Mortality Live Birth Information System Data. The List Avoidable Causes Death Due Interventions Brazilian Health was used for deaths an adaptation deaths, according indicators (low <...

Older people living in care homes deserve access to specialist palliative their last months of life, and this has never been more important than during a global pandemic. Palliative Care Needs Rounds facilitated by nurse practitioners are cost-effective, reduce avoidable hospital transfers, improve quality death dying, increase the capacity staff recognize plan for dying residents homes. Conduc...

We aim to raise awareness of the burden of avoidable death and disability attributable to childhood injury in Europe in general and Croatia in particular. As formerly common causes of childhood death have declined, injuries have become the most important single cause of death in childhood in European countries. Yet, there are large differences between countries, and especially between the easte...

OBJECTIVE To identify avoidable factors contributing to neonatal morbidity and mortality due to "birth asphyxia" and to ascertain if hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) alone could act as a good marker for avoidable factors associated with "birth asphyxia". SETTING Kalafong Hospital, South Africa, a regional hospital unit that caters for mainly indigent urban population but also receives re...

Over the past two decades, Shanghai, the largest megacity in China, has been coping with unprecedented growth of its economy and population while overcoming previous underinvestment in the health system by the central and local governments. We study the evolution of Shanghai’s healthcare system by analyzing “Avoidable Mortality” (AM) – deaths amenable to public health and healthcare interventio...