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Toward a reformulation of the neonatal mortality rate

Biodemography and Social Biology, 1985
Abstract The use of neonatal and postneonatal mortality rates as proxies for endogenous and exogenous mortality rates is common in demographic and epidemiological research. The results reported in this paper suggest that such a practice is not entirely valid and that, perhaps, a reformulation of the operational definition of the neonatal mortality rate
D L, Poston, R G, Rogers
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Rates of Caesarean Section and Neonatal Mortality

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2008
A comparison of the yearly statistics of National Maternity Hospital (Dublin) and University Hospital (Newark) was undertaken for the years 1983-1989. The findings appear to indicate that after the elimination of major confounding factors, the substantially higher rates of Caesarean section in Newark (17.5% versus 5.8%) did not bring about a measurable
U, Taylor   +5 more
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Neonatal and Childhood Mortality Rates in Myanmar

Klinische Pädiatrie, 2009
The health system performance in Myanmar was reported by WHO as having the highest childhood mortality numbers in Asia only exceeded by Cambodia and Laos. Previous data reported an infant mortality rate of as high as 105 per 1,000 live births. This review looks at the trend of the mortality rate in neonates and children in Myanmar during the two past ...
T, Hoehn, M, Hoppenz
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Reducing neonatal mortality rate with nurse‐midwives

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 1971
ABSTRACTNewborn health indices were measured before, during, and after a demonstration nurse‐midwife program introduced to relieve a health manpower shortage at a county hospital in rural California. During the program, prenatal care increased, and prematurity and neonatal mortality rate decreased at the county hospital.
B S, Levy, F S, Wilkinson, W M, Marine
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Rates of very preterm birth in Europe and neonatal mortality rates

Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 2008
Objective: To estimate the influence of variation in the rate of very preterm delivery on the reported rate of neonatal death in 10 European regions. Design: Comparison of 10 separate geographically defined European populations, from nine European ...
D. Field   +14 more
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NEONATAL AND INFANT MORTALITY RATES AMONG AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS

Medical Journal of Australia, 1973
The neonatal death rates for areas known to have a significant Aboriginal population are similar to those for the comparable rural areas and are higher than that in the Brisbane area. The death rates in infants aged from one mth to one yr are greater in rural areas than in Brisbane, but are greater again in those areas with a significant Aboriginal ...
Dugdale A.E., Prestwood U., Stuart J.E.
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