The association between institutional delivery and neonatal mortality based on the quality of maternal and newborn health system in India.

ABSTRACT: Over 600,000 newborns in India died in their first month of life in 2017 despite large increases in access to maternal health services. We assess whether maternal and newborn health system quality in India is adequate for institutional delivery to reduce neonatal mortality. We identified recent births from the cross-sectional 2015-2016 National Family Health Survey and used reported content of antenatal care and immediate postpartum care averaged at the district level to characterize health system quality for maternity and newborn services. We used random effect logistic models to assess the relationship between institutional delivery and neonatal (death within the first 28 days of life) and early neonatal (death within 7 days of live births) mortality by quintile of district maternal and

SUBMITTER: Lee HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9007995 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature