Infant Mortality Quotes:

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

- Tammy Baldwin

topic: Country, Outcomes, Mortality, Infant Mortality

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

- Felicity Huffman

source: "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

topic: Pregnancy, Use, Way, Infant Mortality, Contraception

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

- Winston Churchill

source: As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

topic: Baby, Learning, Science, Infant Mortality, Members Of Parliament

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

- Indira Gandhi

topic: Anxiety, Alive, Firsts, Infant Mortality

Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still the poorest of the poor. And we are still statistically considered to be extremely disrupted culturally, and have extreme health needs in many areas, as well as high suicide rates and infant mortality rates.

- Leonard Peltier

source: Source: montanapioneer.com

topic: Infant Mortality

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

- Greg Mortenson

topic: Girl, Fighting, Hygiene, Infant Mortality, Three Cups Of Tea

This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.

- Jane Chen

topic: Baby, Parent, Population, Infant Mortality

No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

- Rigoberta Menchu

topic: Justice, Democracy, Wages, Infant Mortality, Lack Of Education

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

- Greg Mortenson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Home, Fighting, Infant Mortality, Three Cups Of Tea

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.241, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Fall, Liberty, May, Infant Mortality, Famine

Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian levels. We don't have open sewers and infant mortality rates at fifty percent but in economic terms we're getting to a level of disparity we haven't seen for a couple of hundred years. And we're getting there very quickly.

- Jonathan Trigell

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Couple, Government, Years, Social Mobility, Infant Mortality

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

- Kimberly Williams-Paisley

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Epidemics, Obesity Epidemic, Mortality, Infant Mortality

In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.

- Michael Sandel

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Pregnancy, Eggs, Trying, Infant Mortality, Implants

What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with what they had.

- Joy Bryant

source: "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Infant Mortality, Khmer Rouge, Rouge, Cambodia

The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.

- Sam Harris

topic: Religious, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Infant Mortality, Teen Pregnancy

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

- Sam Harris

source: Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

topic: Religious, Educational, Australia, Infant Mortality, Belgium

In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man.

- Earnest Hooton

topic: Knowledge, Men, Animal, Infant Mortality

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

- Herbert Hoover

source: "The Hoover Policies". Book by Ray Lyman Wilbur and Arthur N. Hyde, 1937.

topic: Children, Responsibility, Epidemics, Infant Mortality, Final Words

The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.

- Matt Ridley

topic: Average, Years, Mexican, Infant Mortality, Nepal

No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.

- Carroll Quigley

source: Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

topic: War, Rome, Years, Infant Mortality, Upkeep