#child mortality

[reasonsforhope]

I can't take the state of the world anymore, every day things constantly get worse and there's literally nothing we can do. Every time things get better they're immediately undone by forces more powerful than us. I just want things to go back to the way they were before when it felt like there was hope, now it feels like humanity is doomed and will never, ever get better. I just want to die so I can finally know peace from this evil.

Hey. I'm really, really sorry you're having such a hard time. That sounds like an incredibly painful headspace to be in.

Please find someone you can talk to and who can help you - whether that's a peer counselor or a good friend or a trained mental health professional. Especially a trained mental health professional, if you can. You can find a really thorough list of crisis hotlines listed by country here.

Also, I realllllly recommend getting off any websites or social media that are contributing to you feeling like this, or at least block all the people/tags posting things that are making you feel like this. Negativity bias is real - the news/internet doesn't accurately reflect the world and neither does the way your brain perceives it

In the meantime, a few quick words/facts of comfort. I hope they can give you at least some reassurance or solace.

We literally have more reason to hope we can solve climate change than ever before x

Starting about six months ago, major international energy reports have come out for the first time showing that we have a visible, concrete path to staying under 1.5 degrees celsius x

Twenty, even ten years ago, scientists talked about whether we could possibly manage to limit global warming to 4 or 5 degrees Celsius. Now, those numbers aren't even on the map - we're talking 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. We've cut expected warming in half in under a decade x

Renewable energy is growing so exponentially it's now "unstoppable" x

Two hundred years ago, in 1800, there wasn't a single "liberal democracy" - a democracy that gives all citizens the right to vote - on the planet. Just over one hundred years ago, in 1900, there were five of them. Today, roughly half the countries (aka roughly 100) on the planet fall into this category. International politics is so often two steps forward, one step back, but this is actually an astonishing pace of progress in the grand scheme of things x

For all of human history, until just over 200 years ago, roughly half of all children died. Across times, across cultures. Half of all children died by the age of 15. Half of them. Today, globally, that same child mortality rate is only 4%. We did that. We changed what was previously an eternal, inescapable, and horrific condition of human existence, and we are going to keep making that rate go down x

Two steps forward, one step back, is still moving forward. There are so, so, so many reasons that we are not already doomed. There are so many reasons to think the future is going to be bright

To anyone struggling with thoughts like this: please, please give yourself the chance to see it

#Anonymous #ask #me #I am so so not a trained mental health professional or qualified to help people with this stuff #please talk to people who are qualified to help with stuff like this instead! #climate change #climate anxiety #climate hope #child mortality #humanity #good news #hope #cw sui ideation #cw sui mention #depression #climate grief #climate crisis #climate news #hope posting

[politijohn]

Source

6th highest infant mortality rate in the country.

4th highest maternal mortality rate in the country.

Gov. Kay Ivy truly has no idea what she’s talking about

#children #politics #us politics #government #Alabama #current events #child mortality #pro life #hypocrisy #news #health care

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#human progress #human development #life expectancy #GDP #gross domestic product #education #water #sanitation #child mortality #child death #religion is a mental illness

[uboat53]

I know there's a lot of doom and gloom floating around the world these days, but I thought everyone should know that the UN just announced that the mortality rate for children under 5 has dropped almost to just a third of what it was in 1990.

#child mortality #health care #public health #good news

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #memes #shitpost #lolbertarians #libertarians #libertarians be like #fuck libertarians #deregulation #deregulate deez nutz #child mortality #child labor #child labour laws

[andmaybegayer]

He dropped the grimmest graph in this one:

This graph is about the year 2017!

Like, both bad in that holy crap that's a hell of a spike in the under-5 bar, even though I know that child mortality is high, but also to know that this is the best it's ever been, almost any time in the past ten thousand years of human civilization the leftmost bar here has towered over everything else by way, way more than this and that was just normal. Thank fuck for modern medicine.

#child mortality #death #Youtube

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Re: the post I just shared, I've often wondered if part of the reason the anti-vax movement has taken off so much in the last couple of decades is because child mortality is so low. No one alive today remembers a time when it was normal for 40-50% of all children to die before the age of 5.

We want to protect our children. We want to keep them safe. And we have lost a lot of the cultural memory that the way to keep children safe is by preventing disease as much as possible, with every single tool available at our disposal. We want to protect our children, and some people have been sucked into this belief where keeping your children safe means not giving them shots.

We don't remember what measles might do to a school full of young kids. We don't remember diphtheria outbreaks. We don't remember tuberculosis, or polio. And in the name of all that is holy, I pray that we never ever have to remember that again.

Get vaxxed y'all.

#anti-vaxxers #child mortality #seriously we are so damn lucky #and we've worked so hard #do not throw away this gift #we love vaccines #emily talks

[barbarian15]

#covid19 #covid 19 #covid-19 #coronavirus #corona #lockdown #quarantine #shutdown #covid restrictions #economy #economics #gdp #mortality #child mortality #malnutrition #sanitation #healthcare

[instaviewpoint]

When Socialism Reigns

Salute to the Fallen Bataan, Money for Large Farms, and USA Healthcare to Foreign Countries April 9, 2024by PK Morgan The war in 1941 between the United States and Japan produced many Veterans who would be more than 80 years of age today. Very few remember to pay homage to those Prisoners of war who endured the Bataan March that started on April 9 1942. The surrender at Bataan by the Americans…

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#Bataan #Biden crime family #Biden scandals #child mortality #good insecure #independent voters #Japanese #neglected history #politics #we need third parties

[davesanalytics]

#emacs #gnuplot #data visualization #data analytics #our world in data #child mortality

[reasonsforhope]

“A Nigerian mom found out the hard way that jaundice is still a dangerous disease in Africa—but now she’s putting an end to the infant disease with her new tech startup, making solar-powered cribs.

After her traumatic experience with jaundice as a new mother, Virtue Oboro pivoted 180° in her professional life, in an effort to help prevent the terrifying situation from befalling other moms.

Oboro’s son, Tombra, was just 48 hours old when he had to be rushed to the NICU, suffering from a build-up of bilirubin, which causes yellow skin and can lead to permanent damage or even death.

The treatment is fairly simple... blue-light phototherapy.

Virtue’s hospital had no phototherapy devices, so Tombra had to receive a risky emergency blood transfusion. Her son would make a full recovery, but Virtue was changed by the experience.

“I felt like some of the things I experienced could have been avoided,” the visual designer told CNN. “I thought, is there something I could do to make the pain less for the babies and the mothers?”

What could a visual designer do? She designed the Crib A’Glow and named her new company Tiny Hearts.

The portable, deployable phototherapy unit is powered by the sun, and costs one-sixth the price of a normal phototherapy crib—and is manufactured in her homeland of Nigeria.

Virtue’s husband had some experience working with solar panels before, so he lent a hand to the visual designer, who was busy navigating the unknown waters of a new profession. She worked with a pediatrician through the design process to ensure all the details would benefit the tiny babies.

Two years ago, Crib A’Glow picked up a $50,000 grant from Johnson & Johnson through the Africa Innovation Challenge, and the Crib A’Glow can now be found in 500 hospitals across Nigeria and neighboring Ghana. Already it has been used on 300,000 babies.

Virtue, who has also become a 2022 awardee for The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, says a further 200,000 babies were saved from jaundice by deploying the cribs to rural areas—no hospitals or electricity needed.” -via Good News Network, 3/9/22

#nigeria #nicu #jaundice #babies #child mortality #ghana #solar panels #phototherapy #medical news #healthcare #healthcare access #infant mortality #cw infant death

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In October 1936, Ellen Wilkinson led 200 unemployed men on a march from the town of Jarrow in Tyneside, north-east England. Eighty per cent of the workforce in the steel and shipyard town were unemployed; child mortality was double the national average. The unemployed men marched nearly 300 miles to the House of Commons, with a 12,000-name petition, begging for help.

Official trade unions refused to support the march, and the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would not meet them. After the marchers delivered the petition, it was promptly lost – the matter was not debated in the Houses of Parliament, and the government offered no assistance. It was a dramatic demonstration of the indifference of the wealthy men and women in government to the want and despair of the working classes.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quotes #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #october #30s #1930s #20th century #ellen wilkinson #unemployed #marching #jarrow #tyneside #england #steel workers #shipyard #child mortality #house of commons #petition #demonstration #protest #prime minister #stanley baldwin #houses of parliament #debate #assistance #indifference #apathy #classism #class divide

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#Wilfred Reilly #civilization #science #medicine #human progress #child mortality #religion is a mental illness

[facts4u2know]

#child mortality

[tenth-sentence]

More than a third of all children died in childhood, and the population declined from 5.23 million in 1660 to 4.93 million in 1680.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quote #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #child death #mortality rate #child mortality #population decline #60s #1660s #80s #1680s #17th century

[kshtizsingh]

In Uttarakhand, @usaid_india aims to increase the rates of exclusive breastfeeding and improve overall maternal and child health outcomes. Dr. Nitin Bisht of Project Samveg (IPE Global Limited) sheds light on the QUICK model to ensure on-site counseling of mothers on #breastfeeding.

#Mother and Child Health #Child Nutrition #Child Mortality #Support Breastfeeding