Institutional deliveries and perinatal and neonatal mortality in Southern and Central India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Skilled birth attendance and institutional delivery have been advocated for reducing maternal, perinatal and neonatal mortality (PMR and NMR). India has successfully implemented various strategies to promote skilled attendance and incentivize institutional deliveries in the last 5 years.

Objectives

The study evaluates the trends in institutional delivery, PMR, NMR, and their risk factors in two Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research sites, in Belgaum and Nagpur, India, between January 2010 and December 2013.

Design/methods

Descriptive data stratified by level of delivery care and key risk factors were analyzed for 36 geographic clusters providing 48 months of data from a prospective, population-based surveilla

SUBMITTER: Goudar SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4464025 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature