OBJECTIVE To investigate optimal timing of elective repeat caesarean section among low-risk pregnant women with prior caesarean section in a multicountry sample from largely low- and middle-income countries. DESIGN Secondary analysis of a cross-sectional study. SETTING Twenty-nine countries from the World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health. POPULATION 2...

BACKGROUND Neonatal mortality has been perceived as one of the critical and sensitive measures that reflect not only the heath status of infants and their mothers, but also the general well-being of a society. However, our knowledge of racial disparities in neonatal mortality associated with low birth weight and short gestation is relatively limited. As part of continuing statewide efforts to a...

  Introduction: Neonatal mortality rate is an important index of development in different communities and respiratory distress syndrome is one of the important causes. This study aimed to determine the status and effective demographic  factors of neonatal mortality due to respiratory distress syndrome  in Rural Area of Ahvaz city Iran. Method: It was a case control study of all neonatal death ...

hepatitis b is the most common cause of acute and chronic viral hepatitis in iran. it is the etiology of 70% of end-stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma in the country. before the universal neonatal vaccination in iran (1992), the contact rate with hbv was about 30% and the hbs ag+ rate was about 3%. in 2009 the contact rate has declined to 18% and hbsag+ rate decreased to 2%. the e...

Advances in perinatal technology that improved survival may have also resulted in prolonged death from the neonatal to the postneonatal period for some infants. The objectives of this study were to determine if the medical advances that occurred in the 1990s benefited infants of multiple births more than their singleton counterparts, and if these changes prevented or postponed mortality for the...

Abstract Background Information about trends in perinatal and child health inequalities is scarce, especially the Eastern Europe. We analyzed how mortality under 1 year of age has been changing Baltic States European Union (EU) over 25 years, what associations occurred between changes macroeconomic factors mortality. Methods Data on fetal, neonatal, infant mortality, were extracted from WHO dat...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the associations between changes in indicators of health-related resources and coverage, and variations in infant mortality rates (IMR) in Brazil's 27 states in 2000 and 2005. METHODS Data were obtained from the Ministry of Health's online database, DATASUS. Stepwise multiple regressions were performed to model changes in IMR and its components (early, late, and post...