Anonymous ID: 64400b Dec. 15, 2022, 7:04 p.m. No.17951781   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1811 >>1822

Why do children die?

I know that child mortality is an awful thing to think about. But โ€œwhy do children dieโ€ is one of the most important questions ever, because it reveals so much about the state of the world. In this video I explain how child mortality has been dropping dramatically for decades and what it will take to keep up the progress.

 

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Why-do-children-die

Why do children die?

The toughest question Iโ€™ve ever had to answer.

Twenty-five years ago, I encountered a question that I have thought about literally every day since: Why do children die?

Before I tell you what drew me to this mystery, I want to acknowledge that child mortality is not an easy subject to talk about. As a parent, I canโ€™t imagine what it would be like to lose a child. It is shocking even to see the words โ€œchildrenโ€ and โ€œdieโ€ used in the same sentence.

But I think โ€œwhy do children die?โ€ is one of the most important questions ever. It is hard to think of a measure of how a society is doing that reveals more than whether it is protecting its children, and especially its most vulnerable children. And the better we understand why children die, the more we can do to save them.

The very good news is that the world has made phenomenal progress in this area over the past several decades. Since 1990, the number of children who die every year has fallen by more than half! If progress on child mortality is a good measure of the state of the world, thenโ€”despite the huge global setbacks of the past few years, including COVID-19โ€”the state of the world has improved dramatically. And based on what I know about innovations that are still to come, we can look forward to even more progress in the years ahead.

Anonymous ID: 64400b Dec. 15, 2022, 8:38 p.m. No.17952306   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

What Jewish sources called "Babylon" and "Babylonia" may refer to the ancient city of Babylon and the Neo-Babylonian Empire; or, very often, it means the specific area of Mesopotamia (the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers) where a number of Jewish religious academies functioned during the Geonic period (6thโ€“11th century CE).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmudic_academies_in_Babylonia