Abdullah H Baqui, Shams El Arifeen, Gary L. Darmstadt, Saifuddin Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND Neonatal mortality accounts for a high proportion of deaths in children under the age of 5 years in Bangladesh. Therefore the project for advancing the health of newborns and mothers (Projahnmo) implemented a community-based intervention package through government and non-government organ...
Joy E Lawn, Kenji Shibuya, Cláudia Stein
OBJECTIVE: Fewer than 3% of 4 million annual neonatal deaths occur in countries with reliable vital registration (VR) data. Global estimates for asphyxia-related neonatal deaths vary from 0.7 to 1.2 million. Estimates for intrapartum stillbirths are not available. We aimed to estimate the numbers of...
Sarah G. Moxon, Harriet Ruysen, Kate Kerber, Agbessi Amouzou et al.
BACKGROUND: The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), launched in 2014, aims to end preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths, with national targets of ≤12 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births and ≤12 stillbirths per 1000 total births by 2030. This requires ambitious improvement of the data on care at ...
Roy Burstein, Nathaniel J Henry, Michael L. Collison, Laurie B. Marczak et al.
Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable child deaths by 2030-we need consistently estimated data at the subnational ...
Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Marufa Sultana, Abdur Razzaque Sarker
OBJECTIVES: Low birth weight (LBW) is a major public health concern, especially in developing countries, and is frequently related to child morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to identify key determinants that influence the prevalence of LBW in selected developing countries. METHODS: Secondary...
Sohely Yasmin, David Osrin, Elizabeth Paul, Anthony Costello
OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the role of low birth weight (LBW) in neonatal mortality in a periurban setting in Bangladesh. METHODS: LBW neonates were recruited prospectively and followed up at one month of age. The cohort of neonates were recruited after delivery in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and ...
Peter J. Winch, Ashraful Alam, Afsana Akther, Dilara Afroz et al.
Background Understanding of local knowledge and practices relating to the newborn period, as locally defined, is needed in the development of interventions to reduce neonatal mortality. We describe the organisation of the neonatal period in Sylhet District, Bangladesh, the perceived threats to the w...
Shyama Kuruvilla, Julian Schweitzer, David Bishai, Sadia Chowdhury et al.
Reducing maternal and child mortality is a priority in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will likely remain so after 2015. Evidence exists on the investments, interventions and enabling policies required. Less is understood about why some countries achieve faster progress than other compa...
Ghada E. Saad, Jocelyn DeJong, Nancy Terreri, María Clara Restrepo–Méndez et al.
BACKGROUND: Antenatal care (ANC) is critical for improving maternal and newborn health. WHO recommends that pregnant women complete at least four ANC visits. Countdown and other global monitoring efforts track the proportions of women who receive one or more visits by a skilled provider (ANC1+) and ...
Robert Pattinson, Kate Kerber, Peter Waiswa, Louise T. Day et al.
BACKGROUND: In high-income countries, national mortality audits are associated with improved quality of care, but there has been no previous systematic review of perinatal audit in low- and middle-income settings. OBJECTIVES: To present a systematic review of facility-based perinatal mortality audit...
Marge Koblinsky, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Allisyn C. Moran, Carine Ronsmans
Not available DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jhpn.v30i2.11294 J HEALTH POPUL NUTR 2012 Jun;30(2):124-130
Allan W. Taylor, Dianna M. Blau, Quique Bassat, Dickens Onyango et al.
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia contributed 81% of 5·9 million under-5 deaths and 77% of 2·6 million stillbirths worldwide in 2015. Vital registration and verbal autopsy data are mainstays for the estimation of leading causes of death, but both are non-specific and focus on a single un...
Martin Adjuik
OBJECTIVE: To provide internationally comparable data on the frequencies of different causes of death. METHODS: We analysed verbal autopsies obtained during 1999 -2002 from 12 demographic surveillance sites in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh to find cause-specific and age-specific mortality rates....
Yvonne Kelly, Lidia Panico, Mel Bartley, Michael Marmot et al.
BACKGROUND: Birthweight varies according to ethnic group, but it is not clear why such differences exist. We examine the contribution of socioeconomic, maternal and behavioural factors to differences in mean birthweight and the prevalence of low birthweight across ethnic groups. METHODS: Data from t...
Abdullah H Baqui, Salahuddin Ahmed, Shams El Arifeen, Gary L. Darmstadt et al.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of the timing of first postnatal home visit by community health workers on neonatal mortality. DESIGN: Analysis of prospectively collected data using time varying discrete hazard models to estimate hazard ratios for neonatal mortality according to day of first postnat...