Infant out-of-Hospital Mortality and Ways to Reduce It
https://doi.org/10.15690/vsp.v17i6.1973
Abstract
Infant mortality is one of the key indicators of demography, characterizing not only the state of health and a social standard of living in a country, region, city, but also an indicator of the level of state development. In recent years there has been a steady downward trend in infant mortality. To the greatest extent, this trend is driven by improved quality of medical care. However, death of children outside healthcare facilities is the least controlled in the structure of infant mortality. The article considers the main causes of deaths of children under the age of one year outside healthcare facilities in the Russian Federation in 2017, presents data of the world and national statistics, analyses possible solutions to the problem.
Keywords
infant mortality,
sudden infant death syndrome,
accidents,
out-of-hospital mortality,
ways to reduce infant mortality,
prevention
Supporting agencies: Not specified
About the Authors
Daria S. Kryuchko
Centre for Strategic Planning and Management of Biomedical Health Risks,
National Medical Research Centre for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology named after Academician V. I. Kulakov
Russian Federation
Disclosure of interest: Not declared.
Russian Federation
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Irina I. Ryumina
National Medical Research Centre for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology named after Academician V. I. Kulakov
Russian Federation
Disclosure of interest: Not declared.
Russian Federation
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Vera V. Chelysheva
Centre for Strategic Planning and Management of Biomedical Health Risks
Russian Federation
Disclosure of interest: Not declared.
Russian Federation
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Ekaterina V. Sokolova
National Medical Research Centre for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology named after Academician V. I. Kulakov
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
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Elena N. Baibarina
National Medical Research Centre for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology named after Academician V. I. Kulakov
Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Disclosure of interest: Not declared.
Russian Federation
Disclosure of interest: Not declared.
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Kryuchko D.S., Ryumina I.I., Chelysheva V.V., Sokolova E.V., Baibarina E.N. Infant out-of-Hospital Mortality and Ways to Reduce It. Current Pediatrics. 2018;17(6):434-440. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15690/vsp.v17i6.1973
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