Rates, timing and causes of neonatal deaths in rural India: implications for neonatal health programmes

• Main Authors: AH Baqui (Author), GL Darmstadt (Author), EK Williams (Author), V Kumar (Author), TU Kiran (Author), D Panwar (Author), VK Srivastava (Author), R Ahuja (Author), RE Black (Author), M Santosham (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2006-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the rates, timing and causes of neonatal deaths and the burden of stillbirths in rural Uttar Pradesh, India. We discuss the implications of our findings for neonatal interventions. METHODS: We used verbal autopsy interviews to investigate 1048 neonatal deaths and stillbirths. FI...