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Descriptive epidemiology of neonatal mortality in Gowa district 2015
Putri A.R.
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Abstract
The aim of this study is to describe epidemiology of neonatal mortality in Gowa district 2015. The study type was an observational descriptive study. The population for this study was all neonatal deaths had recorded in Gowa district health office in 2015. Meanwhile, the sample sizes were 77 neonatal death cases. The point coordinates were determined by using geographic positioning system (GPS) and exported into geographic information system (GIS). The result showed neonatal death cases occurred by maternal characteristics with received antenatal care visit (ANC) ≥ 4visits (71.2%), 2 times of tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination (81.9%) and birth attendance by midwife (85.7%). Based on infant characteristics occurred based on parity 1 (51.9%), gestational age < 37 weeks (64.9%), birth weight < 2500 gram (54.2%). The main cause of neonatal mortality was asphyxia neonatorum (45.5%). The neonatal mortality was occurred at health centres (46.8%) and hospital (57. 1%).The average distance from respondent house to the hospital respectively 19. 41 km and 19.94 km. Most of neonatal mortality occurred in September with total of 12.52/1000 live births. The number of midwives should be increasing to reduce neonatal mortality.