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Article: Improving maternal health care could reduce early infant mortality in Nepal.(Digests)
- Article from:
- International Family Planning Perspectives
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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In rural Nepal, factors affecting the risk of death in early infancy vary with an infant's age, according to a study conducted among women and their infants in one district. (1) For infants in the first week of life, those whose mothers had had better nutritional status during pregnancy were more likely to survive, whereas those whose mothers had had a previous miscarriage were less likely to do so. Among infants in the first week and the second through fourth weeks of life, the risk of death was reduced by maternal tetanus vaccination during pregnancy and increased by severe maternal illness in the last trimester. Any parental education and assistance during delivery were ...