Perinatal mortality in Wales.

Perinatal mortality in Wales.

The death rate among infants in the last weeks of pregnancy and the first days of postnatal life has been decreasing steadily as the standards of antenatal and postnatal care have improved and as the general standard of health of the population has become better. There are still, however, regional differences in the risk of perinatal death, and in the Principality of Wales the risk of losing a ...

Infant and perinatal mortality in England and Wales.

Table of contents 1. Main findings 2. Summary 3. Background 4. Infant and perinatal mortality rates 5. Linking birth and death records 6. Cause of infant deaths 7. Age of mother at birth 8. Birthweight 9. Socio-economic status 10. Mother's country of birth 11. Child mortality rates 12. Singleton and multiple births using the 2011 Birth cohort tables 13. Users and uses of infant mortality statis...

Infant and perinatal mortality 2006: health areas, England and Wales.

Perinatal Mortality

Sophisticated peoples have a low fertility and great concern for the welfare of their children. Their low birth rate is due to deliberate family limitation; besides planned parenthood, their desire for better living standards leads to emancipation of women, and later marriages. A century ago in Britain, when conditions of infant life were appalling, no less than 15 out of every 100 live born in...

Perinatal mortality in rural Malawi.

Reported are the results of a study to assess the prevalence and risk factors for perinatal death among pregnant women in Malawi over the period 1987-90. There were 264 perinatal deaths among the 3866 women with singleton pregnancies (perinatal mortality rate, 68.3 per 1000 births). Among the risk factors for perinatal mortality were the following: reactive syphilis serology, nulliparity, a lat...