BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

02 Patternsof Mortalityin Childhood
TAtux 37. Place' of Birth and Death of Infants Dying in Neonatal Period in 15 Projects.
Born in Born in Born at Born at Place
hospital, died hospital, died home, died horne, died plced
at home iO110cied
Project Total in hospital at home in hospital
deaths
No. %" No. % No. %I No. % No.
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province ......... 568 345 61.1 45 8.0 83 14.7 92 16.3 3
San Juan Province ...... 906 739 82.3 48 5.3 78 8.7 33 3.7 8
BOLIVIA project ......... 1,091 421 48.4 62 7.1 50 5.8 336 38.7 222
BRAZIL
Recife ................. 1,073 729 72.5 135 13.4 39 3.9 102 10.1 68
RibeirSo PrOto .......... 515 457 89.,i 21 4.1 18 3.5 15 2.9 4
Sao Paulo .............. 1,958 1,712 89.5 50 2.6 101 5.3 41 2.6 46
CANADA
Sherbrooke ............. 229 223 97A 3 1.3 2 0.9 1 0.4 -
CHILE project ........... 1,160 1,024 89.9 58 5.1 25 2.2 32 2.8 21
COLOMBIA
Cal .................. 536 281 58.5 28 5.8 54 11.2 117 24.4 56
Cartagena .............. 401 280 74.1 11 2.9 52 13.8 35 9.3 23
Medellin ............... 383 325 89.8 8 2.2 12 3.3 17 4.7 21
EL SALVADOR project... 917 562 62.4 90 10.0 36 -t.0 213 23.6 16
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew.... 990 831 84.9 29 3.0 78 8.0 41 4.2 11
MEXICO
Monterrey ............. 1,377 1,076 82.3 88 6.7 58 -1.4 85 6.5 70
UNITEI) STATES
California project ....... 570 551 96.7 15 2.6 3 0.5 j 1 0.2
a "At houe" includes those stated to have occurred at haose anti those stated to have occurred in places other than hospitals.
b Based on deaths with place of occurrence of both Iirth nnd death stated.
Fia. 42. Percentage of Infants Dying in Neonatal
Period Who Were Born in Hospital in 15 Projects.
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limited the availability of basic data on
birth weight and morbidity. This limita­
0 20 4 0 so ,oo tion was increased by the fact that a num-
CALIEORR P11ICI
her of neonatal deaths of babies born in
SHILE ROJC
CHILI PlROLICI
" hospitals occurred outside these institutions
lilitIo P1INO ' (fron 1.3 to 13.4 per cent), which mcant a
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n
OIIIIII -n loss of valuable information on causes of
IINSIO.S,. AND,1__,
death. On the other hand, such loss was
SANJUANPROVINCE1I[
lICl,
partially compensated by the finding that
CAR TA I A
EL1ALVADOR
it |tC O PO PROJI C | , a similar proportion (froin 0.5 to 14.7 per
COAC0 POVINC.
cent) of neonatal deaths were of babies
CALl'
BOIVIAPROLJC,I
[oIED IN HOSPITAL EitE AT HOME
born at home but who died in the hospital.
The percentages of neonatal deaths in
which autopsies were performed are preother
projects more than 80 per cent. In sented in Table 38 and Figure 43. In only
Bolivia and Cali the percentages were only three projects was the percentage over 30
55.6 and 64.4. (California 77.5 per cent, Sherbrooke 54.1,
The large proportions of deceased neo- and San Juan Province 32.5). In three
nates born outside hospitals in some projects other projects (Bolivia, Medellin, and