Incidence and determinants of perinatal mortality in five urban hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a cohort study with an embedded case-control analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tanzania has one of the highest burdens of perinatal mortality, with a higher risk among urban versus rural women. To understand the characteristics of perinatal mortality in urban health facilities, study objectives were: I. To assess the incidence of perinatal deaths in public health facilities in Dar es Salaam and classify these into a) pre-facility stillbirths (absence of fetal heart tones on admission to the study health facilities) and b) intra-facility perinatal deaths before discharge; and II. To identify determinants of perinatal deaths by comparing each of the two groups of perinatal deaths with healthy newborns.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study among women who gave birth in five urban, public health facilities in Dar es Salaam. I. Inciden

SUBMITTER: Sequeira Dmello B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10787400 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature