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Chapter Il. Neonatal Mortality
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TABLE 51. Neonatal Mortality' from Specific Types of Difficult Labor and Birth Injury as Underlying
Causes and with Immaturity as Associated Cause in 15 Projects.
Underlying cause
Associated cause
Pelvic ab- Other and Immaturity
Project (764-768,
Total normality M- Birth (777)
dispro. poition unsprified(
772)of fetus difult i ecified Co-ns
475) (6) fettte (767-768) (72) Con- Con­
(labor
tributory sequence
No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate
Total ................... 1,552 327.4 127 26.8 550 116.0 475 100.2 400 84.4 01 139.4 22 4.6
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province ........
San Juan Province ....
BOLIVIA project ........
BRAZIL
Recife ...............
RibeirSo Prato .........
S'o Paulo ............
CANADA
Sherbrooke ............
CHILE project..........
COLOMBIA
Cali .................
Cartagena ............
Medellin ..............
EL SALVADOR project..
82 465.9
162 693.5
133 353.6
135 444.1
62 339.9
214 368.0
.1 100.1
132 302.9
66 312.8
59 329.6
58 299.0
134 432.0
7
7
11
4
3
20
2
13
6
5
3
9
30.8
30.0
29.2
13.2
10.4
34.4
11.8
20.8
28.4
27.9
15.5
29.0
19
68
42
59
15
71
7
43
19
35
19
51
108.0
291.1
111.7
194.1
82.2
122.1
41.2
98.7
90.0
195.5
97.9
164.4
31
55
67
20
30
76
3
26
32
10
15
37
170.1
235.4
178.1
65.8
164.5
130.7
17.7
59.7
151.7
55.0
77.3
119.3
25
32
13
52
14
47
6
.50
9
9
21
37
142,0
137.0
34.6
171.1
76.8
80.8
35.4
114.7
42.7
50.3
108.2
119.3
22
69
51
69
18
91
8
77
20
21
28
80
125.0
295.4
135.6
227.0
98.7
150.5
47.1
176.7
94.8
117.3
144.3
257.9
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew.. 86 210.0 4 9.8 40 97.7 It 26.9 31 75.7 39 95.2 - -
MEXICO
Monterrey ............ 109 318.8 26 49.0 51 90.2 53 100.0 39 73.6 47 88.7 8 15.1
UNITED STATES
California project ...... 42 03.0 7 15.6 11 24.6 9 20.1 15 33.5 21 46.9 4 8.9
1
2
-
-
-
2
I
1
1
-
2
-
5.7
8.6
-
-
-
3.4
5.9
2.3
4.7
-
10.3
-
8 Rates per 100,000 live births.
Fla. 51. Neonatal Mortality from Specific Types in only four projects (Recife, Chile, El Salof
Difficult Labor and Birth Injury as Underlying vador, and California).
Causes in 15 Projects.
DEATHS PER100.000 LIVE IrTHs In nearly all deaths from difficult labor
0 200 01 600 ,00 and birth injury associated with imma-
SANJUAN POVICe
turity, this latter condition was a contribu-
CIII
tory cause. In a few deaths
ilSAl
the
PEcC
underlying
cause was assigned to an abnormality of the
JILLPAULO
uterus
SOIlVIAPlOJ110:
(such as malformation, malposition,
IiOESAPOlJIO
fibromyoma, or others causing premature
CARt16IA1
delivery) and in these instances the imma-
HoUIE1EE Iturity was considered secondary to the
CALl
CHILE PIOOCI
uterine abnormality.
UN
The distribution of neonatal deaths from
1 ., 1,0O1M1 ,ONSI.AEcALIT5 difficult labor and birth injury by birth
SNRROE AOTHIoN,.s,,, to weight reveals interesting differences, in
tl11Ollll FOIIC IL+pLOlHiII AND UN$PICIPIEC
A A CDI.FICULT LABOR
=3I:NTH INJURY
spite of the small numbers in some projects