Reducing inequities in maternal and child health in rural Guatemala through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas: 5. Mortality assessment

Table 13 Stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and modified perinatal mortality in Areas A and B, October 2011–May 2015

Year		Area A Communities						Area B Communities
Year		Number of live births	Number of still-births	Number of births (still + live)	Number of neonatal deaths	Total number of “perinatal”^a deaths (stillbirths + neonatal deaths)	Modified perinatal mortality rate^a	Number of live births	Number of still-births	Number of births (still + live)	Number of neonatal deaths	Total number of “perinatal”^a deaths	Modified perinatal mortality rate^a
PY1	Oct 2011-Sept 2012	1333	21	1354	22	43	31.8
PY2	Oct 2012- Sept 2013	1352	58	1410	27	85	60.3
PY3	Oct 2013- Sept 2014	1426	46	1472	17	63	42.8	1149	21	1170	18	39	33.3
PY4	Oct 2014- May 2015	906	36	942	34	70	74.3	961	38	999	20	58	58.0
PY4^b	Oct 2014-Sept 2015	1359	54	1412	51	105	74.3	1442	57	1499	30	87	58.0

^aWe are calculating here a modified perinatal mortality rate, which is the number of stillbirths plus the number of neonatal deaths divided by the number of births (stillbirths plus live births) multiplied by 1000. The actual perinatal mortality rate uses only early neonatal deaths, which occur the first week of life)
^b Since PY4 lasted only 8 months, we have estimated the number of births and deaths that would have occurred during a 12-month period if the same average monthly number had continued for a full 12 months. This was done by multiplying the numbers of births and deaths by 1.5. The mortality rates remained the same

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