Conclusions: Our study suggests that early neonatal death, especially deaths among ELBW and VLBW is still high at the VRH of Ghana and therefore there is the need for further studies into interventions to reduce death among neonates born with VLBW and ELBW.Innocent AfekeDepartment of Medical ...
In this population-based study of nearly 1.2 million singleton livebirths, the risk of preeclampsia+varying degrees of PTB was consistently highest in women from the Philippines, Nigeria and Jamaica. Women from Ghana had a 4.5 times higher risk of preeclampsia+PTB before 32 weeks, and women from...
Ali et al. Reproductive Health 2020, 17(Suppl 2):154 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-01006-6 RESEARCH Open Access Hemoglobin concentrations and adverse birth outcomes in South Asian pregnant women: findings from a prospective Maternal and Neonatal Health Registry Sumera Aziz Ali1* , Shiyam ...
Total fertility rate and demographic transitionNepal is a low income country having a high annual growth rate of population. The Crude Birth Rates and Crude Death Rates have changed during the demographic trdoi:10.2139/ssrn.2553746Niroula, Ghanashyam...
At the other end of the spectrum, several older studies have shown that elevated Hb concentrations during pregnancy are also associated with increased risk of adverse birth outcomes, including PTB, LBW, fetal death and intrauterine growth retardation [11,12,13,14]. However, the findings have not...
Trained nursing also began to impinge on midwifery: public health nurses supervised untrained midwives and offered mothers lessons in the proper care of infants and children. Scientific medicine, with its promise of safe deliveries without the risk of hemorrhage, infection, and death, brought about ...
South America and Africa [1]. PTB is the leading cause, and the second most common cause, of death in children under the age of 5 years worldwide and in China, respectively [2,3]. It is also associated with long-term consequences such as adverse neurodevelopmental diseases and chronic non...