RESULTS 8 correlated indicators met our analysis criteria: teenage pregnancy rate, neonatal mortality, mother mortality, measles immunization rate, post-neonatal mortality, AIDS incidence, male systolic blood pressure and cervical cancer mortality. The factor analysis reduced this set to 3 components or iHPIs, which could be grouped in ‘mother & child mortality’, ‘prevention’ and ‘AIDS incidenc...

E by developing countries, backed by international support, are helping achieve a steady decline in under-5 mortality. Recent estimates suggest that under-5 deaths fell from 9.6 million to 6.9 million between 2000 and 2011, with the under-5 mortality rate falling from 73 to 51 per 1000 live births. this progress, though slower than hoped in some countries, nevertheless gives cause for optimism....

BACKGROUND In the global context of a reduction of under-five mortality, neonatal mortality is an increasingly relevant component of this mortality. Malaria in pregnancy may affect neonatal survival, though no strong evidence exists to support this association. METHODS In the context of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial of intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) with sulphadoxine-pyrime...

The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial pattern of neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in the city of Goiânia, Central Brazil. Analyses were based on linked birth and death certificates relating to 101,000 in-hospital live births from mothers residing in the city of Goiânia over the 1992-1996 period. Overall neonatal and post-neonatal mortality probabilities were calculated using ...

Neonatal mortality is increasingly concentrated globally in situations of conflict and political instability. In 1991, countries with high levels of political instability accounted for approximately 10% of all neonatal deaths worldwide; in 2013, this figure had grown to 31%. This has generated a "grand divergence" between those countries showing progress in neonatal mortality reduction compared...

background: qt dispersion (qtd) especially after ischemic heart disease and myocardial infarction is a prognostic predictor of mortality, in adult medicine.   objective: this study was undertaken to determine the correlation between qt dispersion and neonatal stress. neonates were divided into 3 groups: normal term (30 cases), normal preterm (30 cases) and sick neonates (36 cases), born between...

Regional variability in facility-based delivery (FBD) rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is not well understood, nor is the relationship between FBD and national maternal and early neonatal mortality rates. A systematic literature review identified studies documenting the factors associated with FBD, stratified by region. Rates of skilled birth attendance, facility delivery, maternal mortality, ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a women's group intervention involving participatory learning and action has a sustainable and replicable effect on neonatal survival in rural, eastern India. METHODS From 2004 to 2011, births and neonatal deaths in 36 geographical clusters in Jharkhand and Odisha were monitored. Between 2005 and 2008, these clusters were part of a randomized controlled trial of...

BACKGROUND In Uganda, neonatal mortality rate (NMR) remains high at 27 deaths per 1000 live births. There is paucity of data on factors associated with NMR in rural communities in Uganda. The objective of this study was to determine NMR as well as factors associated with neonatal mortality in the rural communities of three districts from eastern Uganda. METHODS Data from a baseline survey of ...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the interaction between maternal age and education level in neonatal mortality, as well as investigate the temporal evolution of neonatal mortality in each stratum formed by the combination of these two risk factors. METHODS A nonconcurrent cohort study, resulting from a probabilistic relationship between the Mortality Information System and the Live Birth Information Syste...