Sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics of stillbirths in China: a census of nearly 4 million health facility births between 2012 and 2014

• Main Authors: Prof. Jun Zhu, MD (Author), Prof. Juan Liang (Author), Yi Mu, MPH (Author), Xiaohong Li, MS (Author), Sufang Guo, MD (Author), Robert Scherpbier, MD (Author), Prof. Yanping Wang (Author), Li Dai, PhD (Author), Zheng Liu, MSE (Author), Mingrong Li, MD (Author), Chunhua He, MD (Author), Changfei Deng, MPH (Author), Ling Yi, MPH (Author), Kui Deng, MPH (Author), Qi Li, MSE (Author), Xia Ma, MSE (Author), Chunmei Wen, PhD (Author), Prof. Dezhi Mu (Author), Prof. Carine Ronsmans (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Very little is known about the burden and determinants of stillbirths in China. We used data from a national surveillance system for health facility births to compute a stillbirth rate representative of all facility births in China and to explore sociodemographic and obstetric factors as...