Sentences with phrase «neonatal mortality»

The authors concluded that health facility delivery is found to reduce the risk of neonatal mortality by 29 % in low and middle income countries.

A simple intervention such as supporting breastfeeding within the first hour after birth has been shown to reduce neonatal mortality by 20 %.

The increased neonatal mortality risk is associated with the location of a planned birth, rather than the credentials of the person delivering the baby.

Children born during years of high neonatal mortality who survived to adulthood didn't live as long as those born in healthier years.

The prognosis (outcome) for litters with neonatal mortality depends on the cause of death.

Current maternal health programs, such as the distribution of free food and cash incentives for hospital deliveries, do not focus on weight during pregnancy and have little effect on neonatal mortality.

For each point in the timeline where the percentage of hospital deliveries is mentioned, I looked up the corresponding maternal and neonatal mortality rates.

In 10 of the 19 studies included in the analysis, facility delivery had significant association with neonatal mortality; while in 9 studies the association was not significant.

This data contradicts the claims made based on neonatal mortality that home birth is not riskier for women who have had babies already.

The US is tied for second - to - last place with Hungary, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia for neonatal mortality in the industrialized world.

Early and total neonatal mortality in relation to birth setting in the United States, 2006 - 2009.

The authors concluded that the findings of this study showed a significantly increased total and early neonatal mortality for home births and even higher risks for women of 41 weeks or longer and women having a first birth.

They are often shocked to learn that in the past 100 years, modern obstetrics has lowered neonatal mortality by 90 % and maternal mortality by 99 %.

Blencowe, H., Cousens, S., Modell, B., and Lawn, J. Folic acid to reduce neonatal mortality from neural tube disorders.

That's because countries like The Netherlands like to boost their international rankings in neonatal mortality by pretending that premature babies born alive are stillbirths and not live births.

Evidence suggests that initiation of breastfeeding in the first day of life is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of neonatal mortality when compared with delaying breastfeeding for more than 24 hours after birth.

That's TEN TIMES HIGHER than the national neonatal mortality rate for low risk hospital birth with a CNM.

Midwifery is basically a system of wellness care given by professional midwives to women and infants during the childbearing year, and in many other countries midwives are the primary care givers in maternity systems with better neonatal mortality rates than ours.

The Apgar score alone can not be considered to be evidence of or a consequence of asphyxia, does not predict individual neonatal mortality or neurologic outcome, and should not be used for that purpose.

«Increasing trend in home birth neonatal mortality rates.»

For now, there is not conclusive data that proves home births are any more dangerous than hospital births and carry the 2 - 3 fold neonatal mortality risk.

Their goal is to determine how induction at 39 weeks effects neonatal mortality -LSB-...]

Therefore, the personnel, training, and equipment available for neonatal resuscitation represent other possible contributors to the excessive neonatal mortality rate among planned home births» (Wax et al, 2010, p 243.

The study authors concluded that the study was too underpowered to confirm neonatal mortality risks.

Rather than using neonatal mortality (birth to 28 days) or perinatal mortality (from 28 weeks of pregnancy to 28 days of life), they used deaths from 20 weeks of pregnancy to 7 days of life.

Even in a study that plainly reports a 3x neonatal mortality rate, they manage to gloss over the shocking mortality rate to focus on the «positive» birth experience.

I posted the Wisconsin neonatal mortality statistics in a comment thread on a Newsweek article about midwifery which quoted Prown, asking why she did not mention that homebirth midwives in Wisconsin had triple the neonatal death rate of low risk hospital birth.

The reported neonatal mortality risk for homebirths is 0.2 %, or 20 out of 10,000 home births.