Sentence examples for increase birth from inspiring English sources

We have shown that micronutrient supplements have important health effects for the newborn infant, with a potential to increase birth weight and birth length through increased duration of gestation and direct effects on fetal growth.

Breeders did not directly select to increase birth weight, but it increased as a correlated response to selection for increased weaning and yearling weights.

The directive would oblige all member states to introduce incentives to increase birth rates eg, by raising family allowances and reducing taxation for large families.

The influx of foreign workers into the country since the 1960s accounts for part of this rapid growth, but Libya's annual rate of natural increase (birth rate minus death rate) has also been quite high.

"In their zealous quest to project an image of military might and geopolitical strength by attempting to increase birth rates, Iran's authorities are trampling all over the fundamental rights of women - even the marital bed is not out of bounds".

Over a decade of war, the United States sprayed about 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, halting only after scientists commissioned by the Agriculture Department issued a report expressing concerns that dioxin showed "a significant potential to increase birth defects".

We know from Chile and Romania, among others, that severely restricting abortion access does not increase births.

Mr. Mather estimated that natural increase — births over deaths — has accounted for two-thirds of the nation's population growth in the past few years.

During the last decade, Hispanic residents of North Corona had the highest natural population increase — births over deaths — in the city.

This quasi-experimental study integrated family planning, including the Lactational Amenorrhea Method, into community-based maternal and newborn health care and encouraged transition to other modern methods after 6 months to increase birth-to-pregnancy intervals.

Following recommendations from the 2005 WHO Technical Consultation on Birth Spacing, this intervention promotes knowledge and use of contraceptive methods to increase birth-to-pregnancy intervals to at least 24 months (equivalent to a birth-to-birth interval of 33 months, or almost 3 years) to improve newborn, infant, child, and maternal health outcomes.