State of newborn health in India

Jeeva Sankar, M.; Bandyopadhyay Neogi, Sutapa; Sharma, Jyoti; Chauhan, Monika; K. Srivastava, R.; Prabhakar, P; Khera, Ajay; Kumar, R; Zodpey, Sanjay; K. Paul, Vinod

doi:10.1038/jp.2016.183

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State of newborn health in India

Published in Journal of Perinatology • Dec 1, 2016

Authors:

M. Jeeva Sankar

Sutapa Bandyopadhyay Neogi

Jyoti Sharma

Abstract

About 0.75 million neonates die every year in India, the highest for any country in the world. The neonatal mortality rate (NMR) declined from 52 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 28 per 1000 live births in 2013, but the rate of decline has been slow and lags behind that of infant and under-five child...

Subject

Medicine

Infant mortality

Neonatal mortality

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