Neonatal mortality in Jordan: secondary analysis of Jordan Population and Family Health Survey (JPFHS) data.
Nail ObeidatYousef KhaderAnwar BatiehaNadin Abdel RazeqNihaya A Al-SheyabMohammad KhassawnehPublished in: The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians (2017)
The NNR rate for 2005-2009 period of 16 deaths per 1000 live births indicates that there are opportunities to decrease it. Risk factors of neonatal mortality with respect to predictors of death during first days of life and variables related to geographic variations require particular focus to improve the quality of obstetric and neonatal health services and to decrease neonatal mortality.