perinatal mortality
medicine
Learn about this topic in these articles:
infant and toddler health
- In infant and toddler health: Infant mortality
Perinatal (within the first month of life) mortality rates have also declined, due to improvements in medical knowledge and technology and increased attention paid to prenatal care and infant health. In addition, the incidences of low-birth-weight newborns and short-gestational births have dropped in some countries,…
Read More
problems of childbirth
- In birth: Breech presentation
Because very small premature infants are particularly susceptible to the dangers of breech delivery, the mortality among them is very high when they are born breech first.
Read More