Table 1.
Characteristics of study area
| Deliveries (n) |
< 1 Prenatal visit (%) |
Home births (%) |
Deliveries by community birth attendant (%) |
Cesarean delivery (%) |
Neonatal deaths (Rate/1000) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | ||||||
| Kenya | 18,406 | 4.9 | 64.6 | 50.4 | 1.2 | 16.2 |
| Zambia | 15,903 | 1.9 | 53.0 | 33.7 | 1.0 | 21.9 |
| India | ||||||
| Belgaum | 55,175 | 0.8 | 16.6 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 25.4 |
| Nagpur | 14,532 | 0.1 | 14.2 | 8.7 | 15.6 | 24.9 |
| Pakistan | 32,665 | 22.7 | 56.9 | 53.9 | 5.8 | 44.6 |
| Guatemala | 10,387 | 4.1 | 71.1 | 70.5 | 11.2 | 26.5 |
| Argentina | 6,660 | 6.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 28.5 | 8.7 |
| Total | 153,728 | 6.4 | 37.5 | 29.4 | 7.9 | 27.3 |