Sentences with phrase «newborn mortality»

Even when the signs are detected, hospitalization and life - saving treatment may not be accessible, acceptable or affordable to families in settings with high newborn mortality.

The total slight increase newborn mortality risk of home birth is estimated to be 10 per 10,000 babies born at home, and that 1 in 1000 babies born at home may be adversely effected by the extra transport time in reaching advanced care in the hospital; the absolute risk is small however.

In many less - developed countries — like Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, and Ethiopia — midwives has helped to reduce maternal and newborn mortality drastically.

A road map of strategic actions for ending preventable newborn mortality and stillbirth and contributing to reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.

The U.S. spends twice as much per birth than any other country in the world, yet has the second - worst newborn mortality rate and one of the highest rates of maternal death during childbirth.

According to the latest studies, the practicing of Kangaroo Care, or the special way of holding your preterm infant skin to skin, shows a 51 percent reduction in newborn mortality when babies (stable and less than 2 kg) were kangarooed within the first week after birth and breastfed by their mothers.

He told IRIN that if a maternal and newborn mortality study was «thoroughly carried out» in the northeast, the numbers would be even higher than feared.

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa about one quarter of all neonatal deaths are due to infections, Hospitalization and life - saving treatment for the sick infant may not be accessible, acceptable or affordable to families in settings with high newborn mortality.

«Despite the fact that cesarean section rates higher than 10 % are not associated with reductions in maternal and newborn mortality, many countries across the world — including the U.S., Brazil and even parts of India — are seeing rates of cesarean section rise to over 30 %,» Jerker writes.

The evidence shows us that midwifery plays a «vital» role, and when provided by educated, trained, regulated, licensed midwives, is associated with improved quality of care and rapid and sustained reductions in maternal and newborn mortality.

This new evidence reinforces the Obama administration's Global Health Initiative, which prioritizes prevention of unintended pregnancies and reducing maternal and newborn mortality.

More recently, a study of a 1989 outbreak of influenza among pregnant women at one medical center in London suggested a link between infection and fetal and newborn mortality.