Neonatal mortality since 1935.

NEONATAL MORTALITY IN RELATION TO BIRTH WEIGHT

730 low birth weight (LBW) neonates and 1460 controls were selected from 13,123 neonates born from October 1988 to June 1989 in 17 hospitals and maternity units in Tehran, and were compared for mortality in the first seven and up to 28 days of life (early neonatal period). In this study all low birth weight newborns are divided according to four sub-groups of birth weight, and the mortalit...

Maternal Mortality in the United States, 1935 to 2007

The Chinese Healthcare Challenge; Comment on “Shanghai Rising: Avoidable Mortality as Measured by Avoidable Mortality since 2000”

Investments in the extension of health insurance coverage, the strengthening of public health services, as well as primary care and better hospitals, highlights the emerging role of healthcare as part of China’s new growth regime, based on an expansion of services, and redistributive policies. Such investments, apart from their central role in terms of relief for low-income people, serve to reb...

Neonatal mortality risk prediction.

Infant and child mortality is a health indicator of society in general, and a significant number of these deaths occurs at Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Efforts aimed at preventing infant and child mortality are effective only if based on reasonably reliable information regarding death-related factors. Information is required on risk factors leading to such outcomes in order to prioritize inte...

Neonatal mortality in India.

Neonatal health care is concerned with the condition of the newborn from birth to 4 weeks (28 days) of age. Neonatal survival is a very sensitive indicator of population growth and socio-economic development. The survival rate of female infants correlates to subsequent population replacement. For these reasons, the issue of neonatal deaths is a serious national health concern, especially in dev...