Though Rwanda is among the few countries in Africa that achieved the fourth Millennium Development Goal to reduce child mortality, mortality rate among neonates is still of great concern. Neonatal sepsis is still a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality in Rwanda, including in the study...
Preterm birth is one of the major determinants of neonatal mortality and morbidity. Prematurity is also well-recognised to carry long term consequences on health well into the infants’ adult life. Children born prematurely have higher rates of developing diabetes1,2, hypertensions3,4 and obesity5...
The Republic of Ireland has a maternal mortality rate over the last decade of 3/100,000 compared with about 6/100,000 in England and Wales; a stillbirth rate in 2010 of 3.8/1,000 live births compared 5.1/1,000 live births in Great Britain; and a preterm (< 37 weeks) birth rate in...
neonatal mortalityTigrayfirst week of lifeBANGLADESHDEATHSBackgroundHalf of global under-five mortalities is neonatal. The highest rates are found in low-income countries such as Ethiopia. Ethiopia has made progress in reducing under-five mortality, but neonatal mortality remains high. Evidence collected...
Neonatal mortality contributes about 47% of child mortality globally and over 50% of under-5 deaths in Ghana. There is limited population level analysis done in Ghana on predictors of neonatal mortality. The objective of the study was to examine the pred
A sensitivity analysis including only 76 countries with the highest-quality cesarean delivery rate information had a similar result: cesarean delivery rates greater than 6.9 to 20.1 per 100 live births were inversely correlated with the maternal mortality ratio (slope coefficient, −21.3; 95% CI, ...
If the child has died, the age-at-death is registered. For each child, women are asked to state the date-of-birth, which allows placing events in calendar time. These data are key to child mortality estimates, since almost two thirds of the global deaths are not captured through the ...
Abstract Importance Among the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals is to reduce the neonatal mortality rate to 12 per 1000 live births by 2030. Identifying high-risk pregnancies can help achieve this target in low-resource countries, such as India, which accounts for one-fourth of global...
Despite advancing knowledge of risk factors and mechanisms related to preterm labor, the preterm birth rate has risen in most industrialized countries. Moreover, the burden of neonatal preterm birth remains unclear across the world. Objective To determine the trends in incidence and mortality of ...
4,5 For the mother-infant dyad, opioid misuse and exposure is associated with adverse outcomes. For example, maternal OUD is associated with severe maternal complications, including mortality,6,7 and infants diagnosed with NAS have longer and more complicated hospital stays than nonaffected infants....