Neonatal and perinatal mortality : country, regional and global estimates / [prepared by Jelka Zupan and Elisabeth Ahman].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Zupan, Jelka.

Contributor:

Åhman, Elisabeth.

World Health Organization.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newborn infants--Mortality--Statistics.

Newborn infants.

Perinatal death--Statistics.

Perinatal death.

Stillbirth--Statistics.

Stillbirth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : World Health Organization, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This report provides neonatal and perinatal mortality estimates by country, regional groupings and globally. For countries that do not have data, models were developed to estimate mortality. Since data on deaths come from a number of different sources, the methods used to obtain the estimates are also described. Country-specific estimates of stillbirth and early neonatal deaths are published here for the first time. Estimates of stillbirth deaths that occur during delivery (intrapartum) by regional groupings, as well as estimates of sex ratio in neonatal, early neonatal and stillbirth mortality for the developing world are other recent contributions to the understanding of early mortality that are presented in this book. This publication will allow countries to review their achievements in the area of maternal and neonatal health and compare their results with those obtained by other countries. It is hoped that these estimates will stimulate interest in routine data collection and stress the need for better data to inform and monitor change.

Contents:

Preliminaries

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Neonatal and perinatal mortality

3 Definitions and rates: statistics for international comparison

4 Sources of perinatal and neonatal mortality data

5 Methodology to estimate rates of neonatal and perinatal mortality

6 Calculating rates and numbers by country and region, and globally

7 Estimates of perinatal and neonatal mortality: analysis and interpretation

8 The way forward

9 References

Annex 1: Country estimates

Annex 2: Estimates by WHO region and subregion

Annex 3: Extract from the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, 10th revision (ICD-10)

Annex 4: Estimating neonatal and early neonatal mortality rates when data were not available

Annex 5: Confidence intervals for neonatal and early neonatal mortality rates

Annex 6: Estimating stillbirth rates when data were not available

Annex 7: Estimating intrapartum stillbirth rates

Annex 8: Male-to-female ratio in neonatal, early neonatal and stillbirth mortality

Annex 9: Countries and territories grouped by United Nations and WHO regions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-50335-1

9786610503353

1-4237-9011-1

92-4-068104-3

OCLC:

70786537

Publisher Number:

9789241563208