BACKGROUND High infant and maternal mortality rates are one of the biggest health issues in Pakistan. Although these rates are given high priority at the national level (Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, respectively), there has been no significant decrease in them so far. We hypothesize that this lack of success is because the undergraduate curriculum in Pakistan does not match local needs...

The birth weight of a newborn is a significant determinant of neonatal and postnatal infant mortality. Maternal weight gain during pregnancy is one of the significant factors that influences on birth weight. Our purpose of this study is that to determine the effect of maternal eight gain on neonatal birth weight. This descriptive study is done on women who delivered in Mahdieh Hospital since M...

Data from the Fertility Module of the 1979 Population, Labour Force and Migration (PLM) Survey of Pakistan were analyzed to determine which of 4 factors were primarily responsible for the high infant mortality rate. The factors examined were poverty, childbearing and childrearing practices, distribution of health care and lack of individual attention given to children due to ignorance. These ...

About 0.75 million neonates die every year in India, the highest for any country in the world. The neonatal mortality rate (NMR) declined from 52 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 28 per 1000 live births in 2013, but the rate of decline has been slow and lags behind that of infant and under-five child mortality rates. The slower decline has led to increasing contribution of neonatal mortality to ...

Neonates at risk should be identified as early as possible to decrease neonatal morbidity and mortality (Chapter 87). The term high-risk infant designates an infant who should be under close observation by experienced physicians and nurses. Factors that define infants as being high-risk are listed in Table 91-1. Approximately 9% of all births require special or neonatal intensive care. Usually ...

abstract a long pedunculated egg-shaped lipoma of the sacrum in a newborn infant, presenting as a tail, was treated surgically. occult spinal dysraphism may be accompanied with this entity. investigations for underlying dysraphism and its treatment are mandatory.

The year 2006 brought a 4 percent increase in births to the state that was almost entirely attributed to an increase in white newborns. The rate of low birth weight births decreased for newborns weighing less than 1,500 grams but increased for those weighing 1,500 to 2,500 grams. The state's rate of low birth weight, however, remained less than the persistently climbing U.S. rate. The incidence...