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Advances in Perinatal Care and Declining Regional Neonatal Mortality in Finland, 1968‐82
Author(s) -
TENOVUO A.,
KERO P.,
PIEKKALA P.,
SILLANPAA M.,
ERKKOLA R.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1986.tb10216.x
Subject(s) - medicine , respiratory distress , asphyxia , pediatrics , birth weight , neonatal mortality , intensive care , infant mortality , low birth weight , demography , obstetrics , pregnancy , environmental health , population , intensive care medicine , surgery , sociology , biology , genetics
. Neonatal mortality (NNM) was investigated in the region of the University Central Hospital of Turku (UCHT), Finland, during a 15‐year period from 1968 till 1982. During the study period 81620 livebom infants were born. The NNM rate declined from 13.5 in 1968 to 3.0 in 1982 during the study period. Significant declines occurred in NNM due to respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and asphyxia. The decline in NNM was more obvious during the early neonatal period (0‐6 days after birth) and in the low birth weight (LBVV) group (BW less than 2500 g). We believe that centralization of obstetric and neonatal services in risk cases and the new neonatal intensive care accounted for the decline in NNM.