Sentences with phrase «neonatal mortality by»

HBS began with Helping Babies Breathe neonatal resuscitation techniques that have been shown to reduce neonatal mortality by up to 47 %.

egan with Helping Babies Breathe neonatal resuscitation techniques that have been shown to reduce neonatal mortality by up to 47 %.

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

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.

Not exact matches

«The highly charged debate over the safety of home birth was inflamed by the publication of a meta - analysis by Joseph R. Wax and coworkers, [1] which concluded that «less medical intervention during planned home birth is associated with a tripling of the neonatal mortality rate.»

The third article by Chang & Macones (2011), which the AAP uses to support their statement that neonatal mortality is increased in out - of - hospital birth, was not as easily accessible.

CDC data shows that neonatal mortality is about half as high with CNM and «other» midwives (there's no direct entry of homebirth category) as it is for MDs for all births, as well as by weeks gestation.

That book is full of misinformation, for example he cites the Johnson & Daviss study saying «any remaing doubts about the safety of home birth were conclusively erased» by said study — which isn't even remotely true (the home birth data from that study actually shows that neonatal mortality is 3 TIMES higher at home):

Main outcome measure A composite primary outcome of perinatal mortality and intrapartum related neonatal morbidities (stillbirth after start of care in labour, early neonatal death, neonatal encephalopathy, meconium aspiration syndrome, brachial plexus injury, fractured humerus, or fractured clavicle) was used to compare outcomes by planned place of birth at the start of care in labour (at home, freestanding midwifery units, alongside midwifery units, and obstetric units).

Some interesting charts: http://chartsbin.com/view/2501 percentages of births via c - section by country http://chartsbin.com/view/2602 births attended by skilled birth attendants by country http://chartsbin.com/view/1451 neonatal mortality rate by country

The following chart, adapted from Infant, neonatal, and postneonatal deaths, percent of total deaths, and mortality rates for the 15 leading causes of infant death by race and sex: United States, 2007 makes that clear.

By the way, according to the World Health Organization, the correct statistic for international comparisons is perinatal mortality (neonatal mortality plus late stillbirths).

For example, the recently published Wax study that showed homebirth to have triple the neonatal mortality rate of hospital birth was excoriated by midwives and homebirth advocates for a variety of methodological flaws.

I was further intrigued by some of the author's comments regarding neonatal mortality rates of hospital vs home births.

However, they noted a smaller study of all planned home births attended by midwives in British Columbia, Canada, from 2000 to 2004 that showed no increase in neonatal mortality over planned hospital births attended by midwives or physicians.

The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).

These significantly increased risks of neonatal mortality in home births must be disclosed by all obstetric practitioners to all pregnant women who express an interest in such births.

Home - based neonatal care by community health workers for preventing mortality in neonates in low - and middle - income countries: a systematic review.

HBS is suite of evidence - based hands - on training programs developed by the AAP to reduce neonatal mortality in resource - limited environments.

A study of 3,257 out - of - hospital births attended by Arizona licensed midwives between 1978 - 85 shows a perinatal mortality rate of 2.2 per 1,000 and a neonatal mortality rate of 1.1 per 1,000 live births.

Initiation of breastfeeding within the first hour of birth is the primary and most vital step towards reducing infant and under - five mortality, by reducing the overwhelmingly high neonatal mortality rate.»

Effect of early infant feeding practices on infection - specific neonatal mortality: an investigation of the causal links with observational data from rural Ghana Karen M Edmond, Betty R Kirkwood, Seeba Amenga - Etego, Seth Owusu - Agyei, and Lisa S Hurt Beginning Breastfeeding From First Day of Life Reduces Infection Related Deaths in Newborns by 2.6 times.

Also explore the interactive version of the visualization for the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in relation to GDP, education, neonatal mortality, skilled birth attendance, and total fertility rate by country (Global), 1980 - 2008.

The excess total neonatal mortality for deliveries performed by home midwives was 9.3 / 10,000 births or about 18 - 19 excess neonatal deaths a year from midwife homebirths.

Based on the most recent 2012 births data, the authors concluded that if home births by midwives continue to grow at the present 10 percent yearly rate, then the excess total neonatal mortality of home births by midwives would nearly double from about 16 - 17 in 2009 to about 32 in 2016.

A study of nearly 6 million low - risk births has found that the neonatal mortality rate for delivery by cesarean section is nearly three times the rate for vaginal delivery: 1.77 deaths per 1,000 live births via cesarean, as opposed to 0.62 deaths per 1,000 for vaginal delivery.

The research, conducted by experts from BCM, the Texas Department of State Health Services, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and the University of South Florida, used the Texas Department of State Health Services» Texas Birth Defects Registry data from 1999 - 2007 to retrospectively examine the associations between distance from birth center to a cardiac surgical center, number of newborns cared for with HLHS at each hospital, and neonatal mortality in infants with HLHS.

The device for premature infants decreased mortality rates at the neonatal ward by 46 percent, according to the foundation.

A first - of - its - kind study led by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), published online in the journal, Circulation, found that infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) born far from a hospital providing neonatal cardiac surgery for HLHS have increased neonatal mortality, with most deaths occurring before surgery.

Since the establishment of the first US neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in 1960,1 the neonatal mortality rate has fallen more than 4-fold, from 18.73 per 1000 live births to 4.04 per 1000 live births in 2012.2 Much of this decline can be attributed to the highly specialized care provided to premature and sick infants by neonatologists and multidisciplinary teams working in NICUs.3, 4

Mother Nature allows outcrosses because she values heterogeneous genes, while she punishes homogeneous genes by «culling» animals through a process of dwindling survivorship (neonatal mortality), shortened lifespans, and infecundity.

In cases of neonatal mortality, the diagnosis typically is made postmortem with virus isolation from fresh lung, liver, kidney, and spleen by cell culture techniques and subsequent identification by PCR and sequencing, transmission electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, or fluorescence in situ hybridization.