Improving birth outcomes : meeting the challenges in the developing world /
Birth outcomes have improved dramatically worldwide in the past 40 years. Yet there is still a large gap between the outcomes in developing and developed countries. This book addresses the steps needed to reduce that gap. It reviews the available statistics of low birth weight, prematurity, and birt...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
National Academies Press,
©2003.
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Colección: | Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Reducing maternal mortality and modbidity
- Reducing neonatal mortality and morbidity
- Reducing fetal mortality
- Improving birth outcomes within health care systems
- The problem of low birth weight
- Reducing mortality and morbidity from birth defects
- Preventing perinatal transmission of HIV
- Summing up: the way forward.