{"id":32394,"date":"2018-03-15T01:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/15\/concern-at-rising-infant-mortality-rate-in-england-and-wales\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T01:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:01:21","slug":"concern-at-rising-infant-mortality-rate-in-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=32394","title":{"rendered":"Concern at rising infant mortality rate in England and Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity, poverty, smoking and a shortage of midwives could all be factors, say health professionalsMore babies are dying within a year of being born, in a \u201cdisturbing reversal\u201d of several decades of the NHS\u2019s success in reducing infant mortality. Health professionals, charities and midwives voiced serious concern at the trend in England and Wales, which was confirmed in data published by the Office for National Statistics. The rate rose from 2.6 neonatal deaths per 1,000 births in 2015 to 2.7 for every 1,000 births in 2016. Smoking among mothers, maternal obesity, poverty and the England-wide shortage of midwives were all cited as potential explanations for the rise. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/mar\/15\/concern-at-rising-infant-mortality-rate-in-england-and-wales\" target=\"_blank\">Concern at rising infant mortality rate in England and Wales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity, poverty, smoking and a shortage of midwives could all be factors, say health professionalsMore babies are dying within a year of being born, in a \u201cdisturbing reversal\u201d of several decades of the NHS\u2019s success in reducing infant mortality. Health professionals, charities and midwives voiced serious concern at the trend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}