perinatal situation in kosovo for years 2000 – 2004 - UNFPA

Perinatal Mortality Rate for years 2000 – 2004
Perinatal mortality records deaths occurring during late pregnancy (after 22 weeks
gestation), at birth and during the first week of life 90 – 6 days). Perinatal mortality
rate is one of the indicator of the health care services and situation.
Based on the reported data Perinatal Mortality Rate in Kosovo shows the decline trend
from 29.1 in year 2000 except in year 2003 where is noted a insignificant increase and
reaching at the 25.68 per 1000 of all births in year 2004.
Although there is a decline trend the current perinatal mortality rate is far from the
western European countries requiring further emergent obstetrical and neonatal
measures to improve and decrease the perinatal mortality rates.
In Graph 2 are shown the Perinatal mortality rates for year 2000 – 2004.
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