Open Access<p>Neonatal Survival in Sub-Sahara: A Review of Kenya and South Africa</p>
Author(s) -
Brian Barasa Masaba,
Rose Mmusi-Phetoe
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1178-2390
DOI - 10.2147/jmdh.s260058
Subject(s) - neonatal mortality , medicine , mortality rate , scopus , neonatal death , demography , infant mortality , live birth , south asia , pediatrics , population , pregnancy , medline , environmental health , biology , fetus , history , biochemistry , genetics , sociology , ethnology
The majority (99%) of the children who die during the first 4 weeks of life do so in the poorer parts of the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In 2018, sub-Saharan Africa had a neonatal mortality rate of 28 deaths per 1000 live births. The purpose of the review was to explore and describe the trends of neonatal mortality within the two sub-Saharan countries.