BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

110 ,Patternsof Mortality in Childhood
TABztz 52. Specific Types of Difficult Labor and and the significant proportions of deaths
Birth Injury as Underlying or Associated Causes
of Neonatal Deaths in 15 Projects Combined. without birth weight recorded (Table 53).
-In
nine of the 15 projects, 50 per cent or
Cause Underlying Associated more of deaths from these causes occurred
in babies weighing more than 2,500 grams.
The lowest percentage in this weight group
(784, 765) ..................... 127 27 was found in El Salvador (33.0). In the
Total (764-768, 772) .............. 1,552 863
Pelvic abnormality or disproportion
Malposition of fetus (786) ........ 550 408 weight group 1,000 grams or less there were
Other and unspecified difficult labor
(767. 768) ..................... 475 157 no deaths in Cali, while in the California
Birth injury unspecified (772) ...... 400 271 project the percentage was 23.8.
TABLE 53. Neonatal Deaths from Difficult Labor and Birth Injury as Underlying Causes by Birth
WeightV in 15 Projects.
No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %
irth weight ARGEN- ARGEN- BRAZIL
in gras TINA TINA BOLIVIA BRAZIl. Rii BRAZIL CANADA CHILE
Chaco San Juan project Recife ibeiro So Paulo Sherbrooke project
Prto
Province Province
Total ................ 82 100.0 162 100.0 133 100.0 135 100.1 82 100.0 214 100.0 18 100.1 132 100.1
1000 or less ...........
1100-1500 ............
100-2000 ............
2100-2500 ............
2501 and over .........
Unknown ............
1
1
8
5
44
23
1.7
1.7
13.6
8.5
74.6
CO-
LOMBIA
Call
1
24
26
18
86
7
0.6
15.5
16.8
11.6
55.5
CO-
LIOMBIA
Cartagena
2
0
18
18
47
43
2.2
10.0
17.8
17.8
52.2
CO-
LOMBIA
Medellin
1
13
17
I
36
57
1.3
16.7
21.8
14.1
46.2
EL SAT,
VADOR
project
2
-
7
5
36
12
4.0
-
14.0
10.0
72.0
JAMAICA
Kingston-
St. Andrew
14 7.3
14 7.3
28 14.6
28 14.6
108 56.2
22
MEXICO
SLO
2
4
1
2
8
i
11.8
23.5
5.0
11.8
47.1
UNITED
STATES
CAfn
California ponterrey project
3
21
27
27
40
5
2.4
16.5
21.3
21.3
38.6
Total ................ 66 100.0 59 100.0 58 99.0 134 100.0 86 99.9 10 100.0 42 99.9
1000 or less ........... -. - 1 2.2 2 3.8 13 11.3 10 12.8 3 2.5 10 23.8
1100-1500 ............ 2 7.4 7 15.8 10 19.2 21 18.3 10 12.8 7 5.0 8 19.0
1600-2000 ............ 4 14.8 5 11.1 9 17.3 25 21.7 14 17.9 15 12.6 3 7.1
2100-2500 ............ 4 14.8 5 11.1 0 17.3 18 15.7 5 6.4 15 12.6 4 9.5
2501 and over ......... 17 63.0 27 60.0 22 42.3 38 33.0 39 50.0 79 60.4 17 40.5
8 50 -
Unknown ............ 39 14 8 10
a Percentage distribution based on deaths with weights known.
bRounded to hundreds of grams except for 2501-2549, included in 2501 grams and over.
NEONATAL MORTALITY FROM ANOXIC AND HYPOXIC CONDITIONS (766)
Anoxia and hypoxia during the various the complications of a wide variety of
stages of delivery or early neonatal period causes, and frequently accurate and timely
constitute serious problems for.several rea- diagnosis is difficult because of the emersons.
They are acute conditions and usually gency character of the situation. The