neonatal mortality rate

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neonatal mortality rate [¦nē·ə′nād·əl mȯr′tal·əd·ē ‚rāt]

(medicine)

The number of deaths reported among infants under 1 month of age in a calendar year per 1000 live births reported in the same year and place.

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No references found			SIMPLE, cheap measures like providing basic transport facility or on- call ambulance services in rural areas and promoting breastfeeding in the first hour after a child's birth hold the key for India getting rid of its most shameful health indicator -- very high and stagnating neonatal mortality rate. NEONATAL MORTALITY AS OUR SHAME by Mail Today (New Delhi, India) She added that the number of paediatric nurses increased by nearly a quarter from 1997 to 2007 and neonatal mortality rates are falling. Fight for tiny tots funding; HEALTH: Star backs neonatal fund by Birmingham Mail (England) The high infant and neonatal mortality rate is attributable to a number of factors including lack of awareness, inadequate caring practices, insufficient breastfeeding, and use of formula milk, milk bottles, and unhygienic environmental conditions. Breastfeeding practices reduce infants deaths: Health experts by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)			Neognathism Neogrammarian Neogregarinida Neohexane neohexane alkylation neoimpressionism Neolinguistics Neolithic Neolithic Period neologism Neologisms neomagma neomineralization neomorph neomycin Neomycins Neon neon glow lamp Neon Lamp neon oscillator neon tube neon-helium laser neonatal neonatal impetigo neonatal line neonatal mortality rate neonatal myasthenia neonate neonatology Neontology Neopaganism neopallium neopalynology neopentane neophane glass neophilia neophyte Neopilina NeoPlanet neoplasia neoplasm neoplastoid Neoplatonism Neopositivism neoprene Neopseustidae Neoptera Neopterygii Neoptolemus Neorealism Neorhabdocoela			Neonatal isoerythrolysis Neonatal isoerythrolysis neonatal isoimmune purpura neonatal isoimmune purpura neonatal isoimmune purpura Neonatal jaundice Neonatal jaundice Neonatal jaundice Neonatal jaundice Neonatal jaundice Neonatal Life Support Neonatal line Neonatal line Neonatal line Neonatal line Neonatal line neonatal lupus neonatal lupus neonatal lupus neonatal macrosomia neonatal maladjustment syndrome neonatal maladjustment syndrome neonatal maladjustment syndrome neonatal maladjustment syndrome neonatal medicine Neonatal milk neonatal mortality neonatal mortality neonatal mortality Neonatal Mortality Prognostic Index neonatal mortality rate Neonatal Mouse Ventricular Myocytes neonatal myasthenia neonatal myasthenia neonatal myasthenia Neonatal myathenia gravis Neonatal myathenia gravis Neonatal myathenia gravis Neonatal Narcotic Abstinence Syndrome Neonatal Narcotic Withdrawal Index neonatal neoplasm neonatal neoplasm neonatal neoplasm Neonatal Neurological Optimality Score neonatal neutropenia, alloimmune neonatal neutropenia, alloimmune neonatal neutropenia, alloimmune Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Neonatal Nurses Association Neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease neonatal ophthalmia neonatal ophthalmia neonatal ophthalmia Neonatal Oral-Motor Assessment Scale Neonatal Orientation and Education Program Neonatal Pancreatic Cell Cluster neonatal panel/profile neonatal period neonatal period Neonatal Porcine Aortic Endothelial Cells neonatal proteinuria

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