courtesy of HIFA and CHIFA, we share this harrowing
information even though we may know about it already. No matter how many times
we read it, it remains a bane on the conscience of the countries named -
'‘[chifa] Newborn Care: Where do newborns die?
19 Jan at 13:39
One of our unanswered questions from the last thematic
discussion on Newborn care was: What do we know about newborn deaths at global
and national levels? Which countries are doing better than others of comparable
levels of income?
The publication Levels and Trends in Child Mortality (noted
by Mary Kinney) provides the latest data on the geography of childmortailty.
For example:
'Two regions account for almost 80 per cent of the newborn
deaths in 2016 – Southern Asia accounted for 39 per cent of all such deaths and
sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 38 per cent (Table 4). At the country level,
half of all neonatal deaths are concentrated in fve countries, namely, India
(24 per cent), Pakistan (10 per cent), Nigeria (9 per cent), the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (4 per cent) and Ethiopia (3 per cent). India and
Pakistan alone accounted for about a third of all newborn deaths.'
What we don't know is at what level in the health system
these deaths occur, nor much about the quality of care (obstetric and/or
neontal) that underlies these deaths (although we can of course identify the
major medical causes of death and we know that most of these deaths couldhave
been prevented with appropriate obstetric and/or neontal care.
It seems to me we know less about newborn mortality than we
do about mortality at any other point in the human lifespan. By
Best wishes, Neil
Africa Center for Clin Gov Research &
Patient Safety
@ HRI West Africa
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