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Newborn health WPRO
A newborn infant, or neonate, refers to a baby in the first 28 days of life, a period marked by the highest risk of morbidity and mortality. Enhancing neonatal survival and health and preventing avoidable deaths and stillbirths requires achieving high coverage of quality antenatal care, skilled birth attendance, and postnatal care for both mothers and newborns. Neonatal deaths, which occur ...
Neonatal mortality - UNICEF DATA
The first 28 days of life – the neonatal period – is the most vulnerable time for a child’s survival. Children face the highest risk of dying in their first month of life at an average global rate of 17.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, down by 53 per cent from 36.6 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990. In comparison, the probability of dying after the first month and before ...
Newborn health - World Health Organization (WHO)
To ensure every child survives and thrives to reach their full potential, we must focus on improving care around the time of birth and the first week of life. The high rates of preventable death and poor health and well-being of newborns and children under the age of five are indicators of the uneven coverage of life-saving interventions and, more broadly, of inadequate social and economic ...
Newborn care - UNICEF DATA
Death in the first month of life, which is mostly preventable, represents 47 per cent of total deaths among children under 5 in 2022. While mortality among children under 5 declines globally, deaths among these children are becoming more concentrated in the first days of life. This makes the focus on newborn care more critical than ever. In 2022, an estimated 2.3 million children died in their ...
Newborn infections - World Health Organization (WHO)
Newborn infections Neonatal infections are primarily bacterial in origin, and include pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. Neonatal infections result in over 550 000 neonatal deaths every year. Most of these deaths can be averted by preventive measures, early diagnosis, timely care-seeking, treatment with appropriate antibiotics, and follow up.
Levels & Trends in Report 2023 Child Mortality - UNICEF DATA
Reducing neonatal mortality requires investing in care around the time of birth provided by skilled health personnel, essential newborn care and care for small and sick newborns.
Child mortality in neonates, neonatal mortality rate (0 to 27 days) per ...
Mortality during the neonatal period accounts for a large proportion of child deaths, and is considered to be a useful indicator of maternal and newborn neonatal health and care. Generally, the proportion of neonatal deaths among child deaths under the age of five is expected to increase as countries continue to witness a decline in child mortality.
UNICEF DATA - Child Statistics
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Child mortality and causes of death
However, the decline in neonatal mortality from 1990 to 2023 has been slower than that of post-neonatal under-5 mortality. Unfortunately, survival gains have stalled significantly since 2015, and 60 countries will fall short of meeting the SDG target for under-5 mortality and 65 countries will not achieve the SDG target for neonatal mortality.
SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being - UNICEF DATA
Goal 3 aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages. Health and well-being are important at every stage of one’s life, starting from the beginning. This goal addresses all major health priorities: reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health; communicable and non-communicable diseases; universal health coverage; and access for all […]
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