Global, regional, and national estimates and trends in stillbirths from 2000 to 2019: a systematic assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stillbirths are a major public health issue and a sensitive marker of the quality of care around pregnancy and birth. The UN Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-30) and the Every Newborn Action Plan (led by UNICEF and WHO) call for an end to preventable stillbirths. A first step to prevent stillbirths is obtaining standardised measurement of stillbirth rates across countries. We estimated stillbirth rates and their trends for 195 countries from 2000 to 2019 and assessed progress over time.

Methods

For a systematic assessment, we created a dataset of 2833 country-year datapoints from 171 countries relevant to stillbirth rates, including data from registration and health information systems, household-based surveys, and population-b

SUBMITTER: Hug L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8417352 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature