The general objective was to investigate how maternal childhood and adulthood social class contribute to social inequalities in low birth weight, neonatal mortality and postneonatal mortality, particularly the combined influence of childhood and adult class and a comparison of influence on outcomes with regard to time distance from birth. Analyses were performed on a large sample of Swedish bir...

background & aim : neonatal period is one of the most high-risk stages of human life affected by some factors associated to pre- and post-delivery stages, such as invasive procedures. anxiety is found to be one of the most common psychological disorders during prenatal period, especially the third trimester. until now, significant negative consequences of anxiety on newborn’s health are reporte...

conclusion we suggest the standard cefazolin prophylaxis (after cord clamping) for elective cesarean section and cefazolin before incision for non elective cesarean section. therefore, administration of prophylactic cefazolin prior to incision will not increase the rate of neonatal sepsis. compared between these groups. results two groups were demographically identical. rate of iv line need (rr...

Emergency obstetric care refers to life-saving services for maternal and neonatal complications provided by skilled health workers. Since the beginning of the 1980’s, several efforts have been intensified to improve maternal and child health status and reducing the high morbidity and mortality. There was built on a worldwide consensus to provide improved maternal and child health care for addre...

BACKGROUND Criteria-based audits (CBA) have been used to improve clinical management in developed countries, but have only recently been introduced in the developing world. This study discusses the use of a CBA to improve quality of care among eclampsia patients admitted at a University teaching hospital in Dar es Salaam Tanzania. OBJECTIVE The prevalence of eclampsia in MNH is high (≈6%) wit...

of the known mycotoxins, the most important in relation to direct hazard to human health are the aflatoxins produced by a large number of aspergillus spp. to determine the level of exposure of aflatoxin from mother to child and its mode of transfer. 70 pregnant women in the labor ward of the federal medical centre yola were investigated for their aflatoxin content by using the velasco fluorotox...

Introduction: Low birth weight (LBW) is one of the main factors accounts for neonatal mortality and morbidity. Many factors are related with low birth weight. The present study was conducted to identify the prevalence and related factors of LBW in Mashhad, northeast of Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in all medical health centers of Mashhad during the first six months of...

background: chronic graft versus host disease (cgvhd) is one of the most serious potential complications of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. study design and method: we analyzed the incidence of cgvhd and its associated risk factors in a group of 161 iranian recipients of hla-identical sibling transplants, with at least 90 days post-transplantation survival. in the majority of cases (n=7...

Recently, Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in reducing maternal and neonatal morality, even though the millennium developmental goal to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality was not achieved. Sustainable Developmental Goal (SDG) 3 has already been set for a new target to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths by 2030. The country takes this timely initiative to introduce a maternal and per...