Newborn-Care Training and Perinatal Mortality in Developing Countries

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Waldemar A. Carlo · Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia

Shivaprasad S. Goudar · Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College

Imtiaz Jehan · Aga Khan University

Elwyn Chomba · Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia

Antoinette Tshefu · Ministry of Public Health

Ana Garcés · Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

Sailajanandan Parida

Abstract

The rate of neonatal death in the 7 days after birth did not decrease after the introduction of Essential Newborn Care training of community-based birth attendants, although the rate of stillbirths was reduced. Subsequent training in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program did not significantly reduce the mortality rates. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00136708.)

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Global Maternal and Child Health Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare Child Nutrition and Water Access

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 362, Issue 7, pp. 614-623

DOI: 10.1056/nejmsa0806033

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