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PERINATAL MORTALITY AND BIRTHWEIGHT IN MAKASSAR, INDONESIA
Author(s) -
Barron S. L.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1974.tb00444.x
Subject(s) - indonesian , medicine , incidence (geometry) , perinatal mortality , pediatrics , birth weight , demography , obstetrics , pregnancy , fetus , biology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , sociology , optics , genetics
Summary By the use of birth registers the clinico‐pathological cause of perinatal mortality has been examined for 1333 perinatal deaths out of 48 582 infants delivered in two hospitals in Makassar, Indonesia between 1951 and 1969. When compared with the cause of mortality in the British Perinatal Mortality Survey, the Makassar hospitals had a lower incidence of congenital abnormality and rhesus isoimmunization but a high incidence of “premature unknown” and “mechanical” causes. A separate study of birthweight was carried out on 1060 consecutive maternities during 1969 and this demonstrated that Chinese Indonesian infants had a higher mean birthweight than non‐Chinese Indonesian infants and that the difference could not be accounted for by differences of social class, maternal stature or birth rank.