Hospital delivery and neonatal mortality in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: An ecological study

Widespread increases in facility delivery have not substantially reduced neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia over the past 2 decades. This may be due to poor quality care available in widely used primary care clinics. In this study, we examine the association between hospital del...

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Published in:PLoS medicine 2021-12, Vol.18 (12), p.e1003843
Main Authors: Gage, Anna D., Fink, Günther, Ataguba, John E., Kruk, Margaret E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa South of the Sahara - epidemiology
Anemia
Asia - epidemiology
Biology and Life Sciences
Cesarean section
Child mortality
Childbirth
Clinics
Delivery, Obstetric
Ecological studies
Feedback
Health Facilities
Home births
Hospital patients
Hospitals
Households
Humans
Income
Infant
Infant Mortality
Infants
Maternal mortality
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mortality
Multiple births
Neonates
Patient outcomes
Pediatric research
People and Places
Primary care
Regions
Statistics
Urban Population
Variables
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