Objectives: To identify the effects of Maternal and Neonatal Death Review (MNDR) in terms of improving maternal and neonatal health at the community level in Bangladesh. Methods: Both quantitative and qualitative methods were undertaken for collecting data in Kashipur Union, Bangladesh. Death notifications from households, subsequent data collections from a focus-group discussion (FGD), a group...

OBJECTIVES To assess trends in early neonatal mortality (ENM) and population-attributable risk (PAR) estimates for predictors of ENM in Nigeria. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A cross-sectional data on 63 844 singleton live births within the preceding 5 years from the 2003, 2008 and 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys were used. Adjusted PARs were used to estimate the number of earl...

Abstract Objectives: to evaluate the evolution of extremely preterm and very infants admitted neonatal intensive care units, regarding use ventilatory support, morbidities, medication use, death, survival viability. Methods: a non-concurrent cohort study, with 163 premature extreme newborns hospitalized in three during 2016 2017. A descriptive analysis data obtained from medical records was per...

background: in this study, we examined the epidemiological aspects of neonatal mortality due to intrauterine infections with regard to regional characteristics. methods: consolidated report of the ministry of health and social development of the republic of kazakhstan on children deceased during their first 28 days of life due to intrauterine infections (p23 – congenital pneumonia, p35-39 – inf...

OBJECTIVE To compare perinatal mortality and severe perinatal morbidity between planned home and planned hospital births, among low-risk women who started their labour in primary care. DESIGN A nationwide cohort study. SETTING The entire Netherlands. POPULATION A total of 529,688 low-risk women who were in primary midwife-led care at the onset of labour. Of these, 321,307 (60.7%) intended...

Background Diagnosis of neonatal sepsis is complicated due to limited accuracy biochemical, microbiological and phenotypic parameters infection. Hence, early recognition fundamental in reducing the risk sepsis-related diseases mortality. As part innate immune defense mechanisms, inflammasomes sense exogen endogen danger signals thereby effecting secretion inflammatory mediators as well cell dea...

BACKGROUND Globally, clinical certification of the cause of neonatal death is not commonly available in developing countries. Under such circumstances it is imperative to use available WHO verbal autopsy tool to ascertain causes of death for strategic health planning in countries where resources are limited and the burden of neonatal death is high. The study explores the diagnostic accuracy of ...

BACKGROUND The perinatal mortality of 70 deaths per 1,000 total births in Uganda is unacceptably high. Perinatal death audits are important for improvement of perinatal care and reduction of perinatal morality. We integrated perinatal death audits in routine care, and describe its effect on perinatal mortality rate at Nsambya Hospital. METHODS This was a retrospective descriptive study conduc...