Perinatal and child mortality, under-nutrition and cerebral palsy : a cross sectional survey in rural Bangladesh

James Whitehall; Phillip Barnden; Md Masud Rana; Lara Wieland; Deborah Gillespie; Oliver Charlton; Melissa Cooper; Vedant Dave; Madeleine Fitzpatrick; Tom Hall; Sean Hanly; Sophie Higham; Amanda Macri; Mackenzie Pickering; Gajanth Sivapalan; Samantha Tripp; Gemma Walmsley; Samuel Watson; John Whitehall

Perinatal and child mortality, under-nutrition and cerebral palsy : a cross sectional survey in rural Bangladesh

James Whitehall, Phillip Barnden, Md Masud Rana, Lara Wieland, Deborah Gillespie, Oliver Charlton, Melissa Cooper, Vedant Dave, Madeleine Fitzpatrick, Tom Hall, Sean Hanly, Sophie Higham, Amanda Macri, Mackenzie Pickering, Gajanth Sivapalan, Samantha Tripp, Gemma Walmsley, Samuel Watson, John Whitehall

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Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in alleviation of poverty in recent years and, in association, the overall nutritional status of mothers and children has improved, and child mortality has fallen [1,2]. According to the regular Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys, the Stillbirth Rate (SBR) fell from 37 per 1000 pregnancies in 2004 to 21 in 2014 [3], and the Perinatal Mortality Rate (PMR) fell from 65 deaths per 1000 pregnancies in 2000 to 44 in 2014. And from 1994 to 2014, for every 1000 live births, the Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) fell from 52 to 28, the Infant Mortality Rate from 87 to 38, and the <5 year Child Mortality Rate from 133 to 46. While BDHS provide information from many regions, they do not provide specific data from the far north of Mymensingh District where two non-government agencies, Symbiosis International and the Mennonite Central Committee, have, for many years, been involved in developmental projects. In November 2018, in order to review their progress and to plan for the future, these organisations surveyed indices of child and maternal health, and related socioeconomic factors, in 25 sites in that region. This paper reviews aspects of morbidity and mortality of children in those sites and compares them with BDHS and other sources. In other reports we examine anthropometry of children and factors relating to maternal health.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Archives of Women Health and Care
Volume	2
Issue number	5
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Bangladesh
cerebral palsy
infants
mortality
nutrition
perinatal death
rural areas

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Whitehall, J., Barnden, P., Rana, M. M., Wieland, L., Gillespie, D., Charlton, O., Cooper, M., Dave, V., Fitzpatrick, M., Hall, T., Hanly, S., Higham, S., Macri, A., Pickering, M., Sivapalan, G., Tripp, S., Walmsley, G., Watson, S., & Whitehall, J. (2019). Perinatal and child mortality, under-nutrition and cerebral palsy : a cross sectional survey in rural Bangladesh. Archives of Women Health and Care, 2(5), 1-4.

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Perinatal and child mortality, under-nutrition and cerebral palsy : a cross sectional survey in rural Bangladesh

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