scholarly journals The Trends of Neonatal Mortality Rate Among South East Asia Countries from 2000-2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Sani Rachman Soleman

Background: Neonatal MortalityRate (NMR) reflects the quality of health services provided by the government. It is very important to disclose the health system capability of each country in managing mother and child health programs because it is an essential health policy that should be prioritized.  The health system capability of a country will determine the welfare and social guarantee because most of NMR causes are preventable. Several components such as maternal factors, neonatal and health services were determined as predictors of NMR. The objective of this study is to compare neonatal mortality trends among eight South East Asia Countries (SEAC) from 2000 to 2017. Method: A cross-sectional design was used to analyze the data regarding the causes of neonatal death between 2000 and 2017. Data were taken from World Health Organization Maternal Child Epidemiology Estimation (WHO MCEE) database.The collected data were live birth; neonatal mortality rate; and the big five of neonatal mortality etiologies in the eight SEAC.  Data were then analyzed descriptively with line chart to describe the trend of NMR. Result: This study found that Indonesia  had the highest neonatal mortality rate, yet the trend decreased gradually from 102.700 in 2000 to 60.986 in 2017, followed by Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Malaysia respectively.  On the other hand, the trend of live birth was the lowest in Indonesia  and the highest in Philippines . According to the data regarding the leading cause of NMR, preterm birth was the major cause of neonatal mortality followed by birth asphyxia and congenital defects. Conclusion: Indonesia has the highest mortality rate, yet the etiology such as as premature birth, asphyxia, and congenital disorder is similar to the other eight countries.

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-279
Author(s):  
Kamala O. Younis ◽  
Wafa J. Saed

This research was conducted to determine the number, disease pattern, and outcome of the patients admitted at the Neonatal Care Unit (NCU) at Al-Bayda  medical center (AMC) in Libya. A retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on all neonates admitted to the NCU between January 2008 and December 2008. The collected data include age, gender, mode and site of delivery, number of gestations, maturity, duration of stay, cause of admission, and outcome. Total infants delivered were 10075, 620 (6.1%) of them were admitted to NCU with a (6.15%) admission rate, 56.5% were male and 43.5% were female, of whom 613 (98.9%) were inborn and 519 (83.7%) were term neonates; 523 (84.4%) of total born were by normal vaginal delivery (NVD). 48.7% of total admissions occurred during the first 24 hours of life. The average length of hospital stay for term births was 5.6 days (SD 5.4) and for preterm 8.7 days (SD 8.55). The common causes of admission were neonatal jaundice (29.3%), followed by neonatal infections (17.6%) were prematurity accounts for (16.3%), and respiratory distress (11.1%). The majority of the admitted neonates improved and were discharged 517 (83.4%), 37(6%) left against medical advice (LAMA) and nineteen (3%) were referred to other specialized hospitals for further management. The neonatal mortality rate was 0.4%, and the overall hospital neonatal mortality rate was 7.6%. According to the cause-specific death rate analysis, prematurity was the most common cause of death (29.8%), followed by sepsis (17%) and birth asphyxia (12.8%). In conclusion, neonatal jaundice, infection, and prematurity complications were the leading causes of morbidity in neonates. The case-fatality rate was high for prematurity, sepsis, and birth asphyxia. Most of these etiologies are preventable to some extent by regular prenatal visits, healthy delivery practices, and timely referral to hospitals which can reduce NCU burden and improve outcomes


Author(s):  
Kareem Abiodun John ◽  
Fasoranti Ifedayo Olabisi ◽  
Alonge Abel Olumuyiwa ◽  
Kareem Adesola Olawumi ◽  
Bewaji Temitayo Olubunmi ◽  
...  

Background: The neonatal mortality rate remains high in developing countries despite the significant reduction in under-five mortality globally. Therefore, periodic evaluations on the causes of mortality are an aspect of health status, which could be performed to improve the neonatal mortality rate. Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the pattern and causes of neonatal mortality in the Federal Medical Center in Owo, Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria. Methods: This retrospective study was conducted using the hospital records of the neonates admitted over a five-year period from 1st of January 2015 to 31st of December 2019. Results: In total, 2,065 neonates were admitted, including 208 cases of neonatal deaths. Mortality occurred in 127 males (61.1%) and 81 females (38.9%), with the male-to-female ratio of 1.6:1. Among the recorded deaths, 114 cases (54.8%) occurred within the first 24 hours of admission, while 94 neonates (45.2%) died after 24 hours of admission. In addition, the mortality rate was higher among outborn neonates (n = 120; 57.7%) compared to inborn neonates (n = 88; 42.3%). The major causes of neonatal deaths included birth asphyxia (46.6%), prematurity (23.1%), and sepsis (17.8%). The overall mortality rate over the five-year period was 10.1%, which is equivalent to 19 deaths per 1,000 live births. Conclusions: According to the results, preventable diseases such as birth asphyxia, prematurity, and sepsis remain the major causes of neonatal mortality, of which neonatal deaths occur mostly within 24 hours of admission.


Author(s):  
Ambren Chauhan ◽  
M. Salman Shah ◽  
Najam Khalique ◽  
Uzma Eram

Background:Neonatal mortality rate is regarded as an important and sensitive indicator of the health status of a community. Children face the highest risk of dying in their first month of life. The present study was aimed to 1) determine the prevalence of neonatal mortality rate 2) identify socio-biological factors in relation to neonatal mortality.3) determine the causes of neonatal mortality. Methods:A community based cross sectional study was conducted in the field practice areas of Department of Community Medicine, AMU, Aligarh. All the live births and all neonatal deaths were taken for one year from June 2016 to May 2017. A standard Verbal autopsy questionnaire (WHO 2012) was used as a study tool. Results:The prevalence of neonatal mortality rate was38.2/1000 live births. The early neonatal mortality rate was 28.3/1000 live births and late neonatal mortality rate was 9.9/1000 live births. The associated socio –biological factors were gender [OR-2.381, 95% CI-1.037-5.468], birth order [OR-4.090, 95% CI-1.119-14.946] and gestational age [OR-12.62, 95% CI-3.26-48.82]. The leading causes of deaths among newborns were preterm births (22.2%), birth asphyxia (22.2%), other causes (19%), ARI (14.3%), congenital anomalies (14.3%) and diarrhoeaandneonatal sepsis accounted for (4.8%) each. Conclusions: The neonatal mortality rate assessed by verbal autopsy is higher than nationally reported. Most of the deaths were in early neonatal period. There is a need for programs encouraging the use of antenatal care, encouraging institutional deliveries and care of LBW neonates; as well as implementation of community-based newborn survival strategies.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (27) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Esraa Abd Al-Muhsen Ali

Background: The neonatal mortality rate is a key outcome indicator for newborn care and directly reflects prenatal, natal, and postnatal care. Early neonatal deaths are more closely associated with pregnancy-related factors and maternal health, whereas late neonatal deaths are associated more with factors in the newborn‘s environment. Objectives: To estimate the neonatal mortality rate in Aseptic Neonatal Care Unit of Al-Sadder Teaching Hospital in Missan Province during period (2011-2014). To determine the most common causes of death in the neonatal period. Patients and methods: A hospital-based study was done depending on data collected from records of the Aseptic Neonatal Care Unit of Al-Sadder Teaching Hospital in Missan Province to calculate the number of deaths within the neonatal period (0-28 days) that was conducted from 2011 to 2014. The other line of data was collected from Obstetrical Ward by calculating number of live births for the same period. Then Neonatal Mortality Rate is calculated and conducted for each year according to the method recommended by WHO. Results: The neonatal mortality rates were 12.15, 13.51, 16.37 and16.11 in 2011 to 2014 respectively in which there was an increment in mortality rate. The main causes of death were respiratory distress syndrome, birth asphyxia and congenital anomalies. Conclusion: Neonatal mortality rate was high in the Aseptic Neonatal Care Unit of Al-Sadder Teaching Hospital, but it was less than the previous period in Iraq since 1990. These results suggest, that to decrease neonatal mortality, improved health service quality is crucial.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 850-854
Author(s):  
Ann L. Wilson ◽  
Lawrence J. Fenton ◽  
David P. Munson

The National Center for Health Statistics reports that in 1983 65% of all infant deaths in the United States occurred in the neonatal period. Of these reported neonatal deaths, 17% were of infants weighing less than 500 g at birth. There was, however, variation in state-reported incidence of live births of newborns in this weight cohort (0.2 to 2.2 per 1,000 live births). Thé states with the lowest neonatal mortality rate have the lowest incidence of birth weights less than 500 g (ρ = .77). If it is assumed that mortality for this weight category is nearly 100%, there is marked variation (5% to 32%) in the contribution of this weight cohort to a state's total neonatal mortality rate. Contributing to this variation may be definitions of live birth used by states. The World Health Organization defines a live birth as the product of conception showing signs of life "irrespective of the duration of pregnancy" and this definition is used by 33 states. Only one state (Ohio) includes the gestational criteria of "at least 20 weeks" in its definition of live birth. There is evidence to suggest that definitions are not uniformly used within individual states. For example, in 1983, 20 states did not report any live births with weights less than 500 g among their "other" populations of nonwhite, nonblack residents. Half of these states, however, use the World Health Organization definition of live birth. Despite the exclusionary wording in Ohio's definition of live birth, 16% of newborns who died in that state had birth weights less than 500 g. Inconsistency in state definitions and possible variations in reporting live births less than 500 g affect state comparisons of infant and neonatal mortality rates.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 2333794X2110254
Author(s):  
Merga Dheresa ◽  
Gamachis Daraje

Introduction. Surviving and thriving of newborn is essential to ending extreme poverty. However, the surviving and thriving of new born is depends on where neonates are born. The true feature of neonatal mortality rate and trends is not well known in the study area. Thus, we aimed to estimate a neonatal mortality incidence in each year, and determine factors associated though pregnancy observation cohort study in Eastern Ethiopia. Methods. The study was conducted in Kersa Health Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS) among 36 kebeles. We extracted all events (38 541 live birth and 776 neonatal death) occurred between January 1, 2008 and December 30, 2019. Neonatal mortality rate was presented by neonatal death per 1000 live birth with 95% confidence interval in each years, and trends of neonatal morality was described with line regression. Cox proportional regression model was used to assess predictors and presented with an adjusted hazard ratio (AHR) and 95% CI. Results. The estimated cumulative average of neonatal mortality rate in this study was 20.3 (95% CI: 18.9-21.8) per 1000 live births. The rate was decline with regression coefficient β = −1.60. Risk of neonatal death was found to be significantly associated with neonate born to mother living in rural Kersa (AHR = 5.31; 95% CI: 3.07-9.18), born to mother not receiving antenatal care (AHR = 1.43; 95% CI: 1.15-1.78), low birthweight (AHR = 2.59; 95% CI: 2.05-3.27), and preterm newborn (AHR = 12.10; 95% CI: 9.23-15.86). Conclusion. Neonatal mortality in the study site is far from reaching the national and global target goals.


Author(s):  
Dhaneswari Jena ◽  
R. M. Tripathy ◽  
Srabani Pradhan ◽  
Geetanjali Sethi

Background: Neonatal mortality rate of 29 and early neonatal mortality rate is 20 which contributes 53% of IMR. India targets to achieve single digit under 5 and neonatal death by 2030. Early identification and management of common morbidities among neonates is desirable for improving the survival. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of assessing socio-clinical profile of neonates admitted to SNCU and its impact on morbidities of newborn from different strata.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in SNCU of MKCG medical college from January 2016 to December 2016. Convenient sampling was done. Data was collected using pre-designed semi structured questionnaire.Results: Total 752 study subjects were taken. Most common cause of admission was sepsis (47.4%) followed by prematurity (27.8%), birth asphyxia (13.9%) and IUGR (7.5%). Majority of out born neonates were admitted for sepsis (87.9%) while in born neonates for birth asphyxia (81.9%). All the morbidities were significantly higher among early neonates, babies born to illiterate mother and those with inadequate antenatal check-up.Conclusions: Majority of babies were out born, may be due to delay and lack of quality new born care in the referring facilities. Sepsis was most common preventable morbidity by simple intervention of clean delivery practices which should be promoted. Birth asphyxia can be reduced by adequate skill development training of the staffs and minimising the 3 delays maternal care.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Sani Rachman Soleman

Children mortality rates describe the health services’ quality as indicators of each countries’ welfare, particularly in Indonesia. Several factors were determined as the main contributors of mortality, such as neonatal factors, maternal, environment and health services. The important of this research is to give recommendation to the government of Indonesia to propose some policies in handling of the increasing children mortality and modifying underlying disease as contributor mortality among children in Indonesia. The design of this study is cross sectional. The data was taken from World Health Organization Maternal Child Epidemiology Estimation from 2000 to 2017. There were three main categories : neonatal mortality rate (NND), post neonatal mortality rate (PND) and under five mortality rate (UFIVE). The leading causes of mortality were searched according to those categories and followed by descriptive analysis by line graphs. According to the data that had been found, there was declining on  NND (102.700 to 60.986), PND (138.553 to 63.471), UFIVE (241.253 to 124.457). The children mortality tend to decline at the range of 17 years, meanwhile the highest mortality among the three of groups are : premature birth in neonates, ARI in post neonates and premature birth in under five children.  In conclusion, the trend of three parameters of children mortality declined within 17 years. On several cases, there were outbreak of injury on 2004 and fluctuation of measles incident among infant and under five children. Premature birth and ARI have the highest prevalence among children in Indonesia.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abera Mersha ◽  
Agegnehu Bante ◽  
Shitaye Shibiru

Abstract Background The neonatal period is the most vulnerable time for a child survival. The declines in the neonatal mortality rate have been slower than post-neonatal under-five mortality rate in the majority of countries. This this trend is also similar in Ethiopia, that neonatal mortality was high as compare to post neonatal mortality rate. A large proportion of neonatal deaths occur during the 48 hours after delivery. Different studies was conducted in assessing determinates for neonatal mortality but there is a need to assess the immediate post-partum (within two days following delivery) cause of neonatal mortality that the majority of deaths occurred that time. So, this study is to fill those gaps of aforementioned studies, in assessing the determinate factors affecting neonatal mortality in public hospitals of Gamo and Gofa Zones, Southern Ethiopia. Methods A prospective follow up study was conducted among 6,986 study participants from April 5, 2018 to March 5, 2019. Data on causes of neonatal death were collected by using structured verbal autopsy questionnaire. Data were entered in to Epi data version 3.1 and exported to Stata version 15 for analysis. Crude and adjusted estimate β with 95%CI was calculated in the binary logistic regression model. The goodness of fit was tested by log likelihood ratio (LR). In this study P-value < 0.05 was considered to declare a result as statistically significant association. Results In this study neonatal mortality incidence ratio was 9.6 (95%CI: 7.5%, 12.2%) per 1000 live births. Age of the mother, number of antenatal care, hemorrhage, sex of the neonate, presentation, gestational age and birth weight were identified as the significant determinates for neonatal mortality cases. Prematurity, infection and birth asphyxia were the most common causes of neonatal mortality cases. Conclusions This study indicated that a significant number of neonates were died during neonatal period. Both maternal and neonatal factors were identified. Therefore, early identification of obstetric complications and immediate interventions, strengthening the provision of quality antenatal and postnatal care services are recommended.


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