Institutional deliveries and stillbirth and neonatal mortality in the Global Network's Maternal and Newborn Health Registry

Shivaprasad S Goudar, Norman Goco, Manjunath S Somannavar, Avinash Kavi, Sunil S Vernekar, Antoinette Tshefu, Elwyn Chomba, Ana L Garces, Sarah Saleem, Farnaz Naqvi, Archana Patel, Fabian Esamai, Carl L Bose, Waldemar A Carlo, Nancy F Krebs, Patricia L Hibberd, Edward A Liechty, Marion Koso-Thomas, Tracy L Nolen, Janet Moore, Pooja Iyer, Elizabeth M McClure, Robert L Goldenberg, Richard J Derman, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Norman Goco, Manjunath S Somannavar, Avinash Kavi, Sunil S Vernekar, Antoinette Tshefu, Elwyn Chomba, Ana L Garces, Sarah Saleem, Farnaz Naqvi, Archana Patel, Fabian Esamai, Carl L Bose, Waldemar A Carlo, Nancy F Krebs, Patricia L Hibberd, Edward A Liechty, Marion Koso-Thomas, Tracy L Nolen, Janet Moore, Pooja Iyer, Elizabeth M McClure, Robert L Goldenberg, Richard J Derman

Abstract

Background: Few studies have shown how the move toward institutional delivery in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) impacts stillbirth and newborn mortality.

Objectives: The study evaluated trends in institutional delivery in research sites in Belagavi and Nagpur India, Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, and Zambia from 2010 to 2018 and compared them to changes in the rates of neonatal mortality and stillbirth.

Methods: We analyzed data from a nine-year interval captured in the Global Network (GN) Maternal Newborn Health Registry (MNHR). Mortality rates were estimated from generalized estimating equations controlling for within-cluster correlation. Cluster-level analyses were performed to assess the association between institutional delivery and mortality rates.

Results: From 2010 to 2018, a total of 413,377 deliveries in 80 clusters across 6 sites in 5 countries were included in these analyses. An increase in the proportion of institutional deliveries occurred in all sites, with a range in 2018 from 57.7 to 99.8%. In 2010, the stillbirth rates ranged from 19.3 per 1000 births in the Kenyan site to 46.2 per 1000 births in the Pakistani site and by 2018, ranged from 9.7 per 1000 births in the Belagavi, India site to 40.8 per 1000 births in the Pakistani site. The 2010 neonatal mortality rates ranged from 19.0 per 1000 live births in the Kenyan site to 51.3 per 1000 live births in the Pakistani site with the 2018 neonatal mortality rates ranging from 9.2 per 1000 live births in the Zambian site to 50.2 per 1000 live births in the Pakistani site. In multivariate modeling, in some but not all sites, the reductions in stillbirth and neonatal death were significantly associated with an increase in the institutional deliveries.

Conclusions: There was an increase in institutional delivery rates in all sites and a reduction in stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates in some of the GN sites over the past decade. The relationship between institutional delivery and a decrease in mortality was significant in some but not all sites. However, the stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates remain at high levels. Understanding the relationship between institutional delivery and stillbirth and neonatal deaths in resource-limited environments will enable development of targeted interventions for reducing the mortality burden.

Trial registration: The study is registered at clinicaltrials.gov . ClinicalTrial.gov Trial Registration: NCT01073475 .

Keywords: Facility births; Global network; Institutional deliveries; Neonatal mortality; Stillbirths.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Figures

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CONSORT diagram - Enrollment and deliveries
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Stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates - trends over time by country site

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