Global Study of Preterm Birth

Global Study of Preterm Birth

The World Health Organization has recently published a study which raised a number of objectives, such as evaluating the incidence of preterm birth and knows their distribution in the world to develop strategies for prevention and action.

Global prematurity rates, regional distribution and assessment strategies have been the targets they have set the research team led by Stacy Beck in the study has been published by WHO in its official gazette the name of “Impact World of preterm birth: systematic review of maternal morbidity and mortality. ”

To accomplish this were based on data on maternal mortality and morbidity between 1997 and 2002 officers also carried out a widespread search which extended the period until the year 2007, with missing data and models were found by multiple regressions specific to each location.

A 9.6% of premature births registered in 2005, of which 85% of those between Africa and Asia, 7% in the Caribbean and Latin America and 4% in both Europe and North America, excluding Mexico.
That 9.6% represents 12’9 million premature births and premature infants worldwide, placing in the lead countries that are still trying to develop, Africa, and among the worst in Europe.

Knowing that neonatal prematurity is not a serious problem in a developed country, a baby born less than 2kg, has very little chance of survival in a developing nation and because in the last two decades, premature births have increased dramatically, “Improving access and efficiency of health care in developing countries should be a priority,” proclaims the World Health Organization.

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