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  1. > With the installation of 181 public mother wait homes where rural women spend the last two weeks of their pregnancies, maternal mortality has dropped by 67.7% and child mortality by 58.6% in 17 years.

    #ChildMortality #MaternalMortality reminded me of #Semmelweis and got me guessing that #PovertyReduction deserves as much attention as Science, Scientific breaktrhoughs, or The Progress of Science, for lowering #MortalityRates ...

  2. A natural experiment using 60 years of #DoctorWho episodes (the TARDIS study)

    #BMJ #mortalityrates

    bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-0

    >A new Doctor Who episode shown every festive period, especially on Christmas Day, was associated with reduced mortality rates in England, Wales, and the UK... This finding reinforces why healthcare provision should not be taken for granted and may prompt the BBC and Disney+ to televise new episodes of Doctor Who every festive period, ideally on Christmas Day.