Newborn survival in low resource settings-are we delivering?
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Newborn survival in low resource settings--are we delivering?
The annual toll of losses resulting from poor pregnancy outcomes include half a million maternal deaths, more than three million stillbirths, of whom at least one million die during labour and 3.8 million neonatal deaths--up to half on the first day of life. Neonatal deaths account for an increasing proportion of child deaths (now 41%) and must be reduced to achieve Millennium Development Goal ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1470-0328
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02328.x