Institutional deliveries and stillbirth and neonatal mortality in the Global Network's Maternal and Newborn Health Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have shown how the move toward institutional delivery in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) impacts stillbirth and newborn mortality.

Objectives

The study evaluated trends in institutional delivery in research sites in Belagavi and Nagpur India, Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, and Zambia from 2010 to 2018 and compared them to changes in the rates of neonatal mortality and stillbirth.

Methods

We analyzed data from a nine-year interval captured in the Global Network (GN) Maternal Newborn Health Registry (MNHR). Mortality rates were estimated from generalized estimating equations controlling for within-cluster correlation. Cluster-level analyses were performed to assess the association between institutional delivery and mortality rates.

Results<

SUBMITTER: Goudar SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7745350 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature