BIRTH, STILLBIRTH AND DEATH REGISTRATION

Interpregnancy interval. Association with birth weight, stillbirth, and neonatal death.

Pairs of first and second births and pairs of second and third births to the same Norwegian mothers were studied to determine the association between interpregnancy interval and birth weight, stillbirth, and neonatal death. Use of the pair approach provides one birth which could possibly have been affected by the length of the interval and one birth which could not. The association of interval ...

Improving completeness of birth and death registration in rural Africa.

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 4 September 2016 e604 the functioning of the registration system. Registration being nearly complete (>90%) implies that all social strata were affected by the changes to registration practice, which can be verified by socioeconomic analysis. For the poorest group (lowest level of wealth), completeness of birth registration increased from 5% in 1992–94 to 67% in 2...

Rationale and recommendations for improving definitions, registration requirements and procedures related to fetal death and stillbirth

Stillbirth registration and perceptions of infant death, 1900–60: the Scottish case in national context1

The history of vital registration has attracted substantial attention from both social historians and historical demographers. While much of that research has touched upon issues of fertility and mortality, the contentious issue of the stillborn child-which falls somewhere between the two-has been largely neglected. Although civil birth and death registration was introduced to Scotland in 1855,...

Why focus on preterm birth and stillbirth?

While under-5 mortality rates are improving in many countries worldwide, neonatal mortality rates (deaths in the fi rst 28 days of life) have shown much less progress [1]. Neonatal deaths now account for more than 42% of under fi ve deaths (Figure 1), up from 37% in the year 2000 when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set [2, 3]. MDG 4 targets a two-thirds reduction of under-fi ve de...