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dc.contributor.authorChowdhury, H.
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Sandra
dc.contributor.authorAli, Mohammed
dc.contributor.authorAlam, N.
dc.contributor.authorYunus, M.
dc.contributor.authorStreatfield, P.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:32:23Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:32:23Z
dc.date.created2011-03-06T20:01:28Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationChowdhury, Hafizur Rahman and Thompson, Sandra and Ali, Mohammed and Alam, Nurul and Yunus, Md. and Streatfield, Peter Kim. 2010. Causes of Neonatal Deaths in a Rural Subdistrict of Bangladesh: Implications for Intervention. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 28 (4): pp. 375-382.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22590
dc.description.abstract

The study assessed the timing and causes of neonatal deaths in a rural area of Bangladesh. A population baseddemographic surveillance system, run by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, recorded livebirths and neonatal deaths during 2003-2004 among a population of 224,000 living in Matlab, a rural subdistrict of eastern Bangladesh. Deaths were investigated using the INDEPTH/World Health Organization verbal autopsy. Three physicians independently reviewed data from verbal autopsy interview to assign the cause of death. There were 11,291 livebirths and 365 neonatal deaths during the two-year period. The neonatal mortality rate was 32.3 per 1,000 livebirths. Thirty-seven percent of the neonatal deaths occurred within 24 hours, 76% within 0-3 days, 84% within 0-7 days, and the remaining 16% within 8-28 days.Birth asphyxia (45%), prematurity/low birthweight (15%), sepsis/meningitis (12%), respiratory distress syndrome (7%), and pneumonia (6%) were the major direct causes of death. Birth asphyxia (52.8%) was the single largest category of cause of death in the early neonatal period while meningitis/sepsis (48.3%) was the single largest category in the late neonatal period. The high proportion of deaths during the early neonatal period and the far-higher proportion of neonatal deaths caused by birth asphyxia compared to the global average (45% vs 23-29%) indicate the lack of skilled birth attendance and newborn care for the large majority of births that occur in the home in rural Bangladesh. Resuscitation of newborns and management of low-birthweight/premature babies need to be at the core of neonatal interventional packages in rural Bangladesh.

dc.publisherInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
dc.subjectCauses of death
dc.subjectInterventions
dc.subjectNeonatal mortality
dc.subjectBangladesh
dc.subjectVerbal autopsy
dc.titleCauses of Neonatal Deaths in a Rural Subdistrict of Bangladesh: Implications for Intervention
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume28
dcterms.source.number4
dcterms.source.startPage375
dcterms.source.endPage382
dcterms.source.issn1606-0997
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Health, Population and Nutrition
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This paper has been reproduced with the permission of icddr,b, copyright holder of the publication. The paper was originally published in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (JHPN), Chowdhury HR, Thompson S, Ali M, Alam N, Yunus M, Streatfield PK. Causes of neonatal deaths in a rural sub-district in Bangladesh: implications for intervention. J Health Popul Nutr 2010;28:375-82.

curtin.departmentCentre for International Health (Curtin Research Centre)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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