background infant mortality rate is widely used to assessing the health status of population in both developing and developed countries. the aim of this study was to identify the main factors affect infant mortality rate in eco countries for the years 2005 to 2012. methods a panel data model from eco countries from 2005 to 2012 used to identify the some of key explanatory variables (gdp per cap...

background: the human development index (hdi) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators, which apart from measuring the socio-economic development of countries can predict health outcomes. the current study aimed at determination of the effects of hdi individual components on infant and child mortality. materials and methods: at a cross- sectional ...

The reduction of infant mortality (death in the first year of life) has proven to be one of the more intractable public health challenges in the developing world. The consensus in the public health community is that we have reached a tipping point in the evidence for the efficacy of newborn vitamin A supplementation (NVAS) in reducing infant mortality in South Asia. Randomized control trials in...

conclusions despite the progress made in medicine, meconium aspiration syndrome is still one of the causes of newborn infants’ mortality. the mortality and morbidity rates can be reduced by improvement in perinatal care, prevention of post term delivery, timely caesarean and effective neonatal resuscitation at birth. results sixty-three newborn infants, diagnosed with meconium aspiration syndro...

India will be unable to achieve any substantial further drop in its infant mortality without first intensifying efforts to protect babies during their first four weeks of life, neonatologists told a conference in New Delhi last week. An estimated 1.2 million babies die in India each year during the first month after birth, making up two thirds of the nation’s infant mortality of 67 per thousand...

BACKGROUND Concurrent admission of a mother and her newborn to separate intensive care units (herein referred to as co-ICU admission), possibly in different centres, can magnify family discord and stress. We examined the prevalence and predictors of mother-infant separation and mortality associated with co-ICU admissions. METHODS We completed a population-based study of all 1 023 978 singleto...

Background: Infant mortality has decreased in Brazil, but remains high as compared to that of other developing countries. In 2010, the Rio Grande do Sul state had the lowest infant mortality rate in Brazil. However, the municipality of Novo Hamburgo had the highest infant mortality rate in the Porto Alegre metropolitan region. Objective: To describe the causes of infant mortality in the municip...

The European Resuscitation Council has produced these newborn life support guidelines, which are based on the International Liaison Committee (ILCOR) 2020 Consensus Science and Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR) for Neonatal Life Support. guidelines cover management of term preterm infant. topics covered include an algorithm to aid a logical approach resuscitation newborn, factors before deliver...

introduction: screening of newborns with seizure, who have curable pathologic brain findings, might be able to improve their final outcome by accelerating treatment intervention. the present study aimed to evaluate the brain ultrasonography findings of newborns hospitalized with complaint of seizure. methods: the present cross-sectional study designed to evaluate brain ultrasonography findings ...

an eleven-day boy neonate with a fetal anamnesis of grade 1 bilateral hydronephrosis according to the grading of the society for fetal urology (sfu), came to our attention for an acute osteoarthritis secondary to urosepsis. in the urological follow-up, a severe bilateral vesico-ureteral reflux (vur) was diagnosed. an early post-natal, reno-vesicle ultrasound evaluation could have changed the cl...