The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. — Kimberly Williams-Paisley Copy Share Image
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pregnancies spaced too closely together lead to increased rates of infant mortality. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
“The primary reason that U.S. infant mortality is so high compared to other countries is that African Americans suffer a staggering rate.… — Laura Briggs Copy Share Image
Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
If anything, all homes should have piped water supply and sanitation, which could improve public-health indicators and reduce infant mortality. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Your nation is the richest, most powerful on the Earth, and it has one of the highest infant mortality rates. Why? Because… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“If you have not died in the womb, or fallen prey to infant mortality, or to a young girl's greensickness, or to… — Elspeth Marr Copy Share Image
Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Poor teacher training, the officials working with O’Neill finally figured out, was a root cause of high infant mortality. If you asked… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“...Analyses of globalization may also include statistics on poverty and human development indicators such as health, life expectancy, education, and infant mortality.… — Barbara Sutton Copy Share Image
“The essence of the tribal lineage was the descent of property through the male line. But producing a male heir under medieval… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Inequality, then, is not just unattractive in itself; it clearly corresponds to pathological social problems that we cannot hope to address unless… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Why trust this account when humanity has never been so rich, so healthy, so long-lived? When fewer die in wars and childbirth… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“You are claiming that the Soviet authorities began and influenced the existence of the Democratic Party [in Iran]. That is the basis… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Romanians, however, paid a terrible price for Ceauşescu’s privileged status. In 1966, to increase the population—a traditional ‘Romanianist’ obsession—he prohibited abortion for… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“New Rule: America must stop bragging it's the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I know this is uncomfortable… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The rationing system that was set up in Britain at the outbreak of the hostilities was as revolutionary as anything the Communists… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Because of high infant mortality—even in the nineteenth century, it was not uncommon for 20 percent of children to die before age… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image