Comparing socioeconomic inequalities between early neonatal mortality and facility delivery: Cross-sectional data from 72 low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: Facility delivery should reduce early neonatal mortality. We used the Slope Index of Inequality and logistic regression to quantify absolute and relative socioeconomic inequalities in early neonatal mortality (0 to 6 days) and facility delivery among 679,818 live births from 72 countries with Demographic and Health Surveys. The inequalities in early neonatal mortality were compared with inequalities in postneonatal infant mortality (28 days to 1 year), which is not related to childbirth. Newborns of the richest mothers had a small survival advantage over the poorest in unadjusted analyses (-2.9 deaths/1,000; OR 0.86) and the most educated had a small survival advantage over the least educated (-3.9 deaths/1,000; OR 0.77), while inequalities in postneonatal infant mortality were more than d

SUBMITTER: Lohela TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6611781 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature