Also,the study says the United States fell from thirty-fourth to forty-ninth in female mortality and from forty-first to forty-fifth for men.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The study estimated mortality rates for people age fifteen to fifty-nine in one hundred eighty-seven countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

But he points to growing inequalities in adult mortality -- a "massive spread" between countries with the highest rates and those with the lowest.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Listen to these lines from "Song of Myself": And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

"The group that had the training initially had a fifty percent greater reduction in their mortality rate and that was greater reduction than the control group, the group that didn't have the training initially."

VOA: special.2010.10.20

If we can get midwifery coverage out there, we can reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality by 90 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

"There is an additional perhaps 10 to 15 percent mortality risk associated with acquiring an infection in the ICU ,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Tackling maternal mortality, on the other hand, requires that good quality care be quickly available at health clinics.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"And for women,we found that morbidity played a greater role, but for men, mortality played a greater role."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

(SAYING:mortality rates in the United States) About 40 percent of the decrease for men resulted from the decline in lung cancer death.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

"The difference is the developing countries have focused on public health, prevention and primary and prenatal care in the area of maternal mortality."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Mariam Ndiaye Coulibaly, the group's representative to Senegal, applauded the country's progress with regards to reducing child mortality and improving access to school.

VOA: standard.2009.11.22

Dr.Strebel says the Millennium Development Goal aimed at reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015 will be missed if measles outbreaks continue to spread.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

One problem health care providers have here is getting good data on the maternal mortality rate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10