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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 48 |
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Perinatal death auditing is necessary to identify preventable perinatal deaths
HN Harsha Kumar1, Shantaram B Baliga2, Pralhad Kushtagi3, Nutan Kamath2, Sucheta S Rao2
1 Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Deemed to be University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
2 Department of Pediatrics, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Deemed to be University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gyneacology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Deemed to be University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
| Date of Submission | 12-Mar-2020 |
| Date of Acceptance | 21-May-2020 |
| Date of Web Publication | 05-Apr-2022 |
Correspondence Address:
H N Harsha Kumar
Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Deemed to be University, Mangalore - 575 001, Karnataka
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_65_20
How to cite this article:
Harsha Kumar H N, Baliga SB, Kushtagi P, Kamath N, Rao SS. Perinatal death auditing is necessary to identify preventable perinatal deaths. Int J Prev Med 2022;13:48 |
How to cite this URL:
Harsha Kumar H N, Baliga SB, Kushtagi P, Kamath N, Rao SS. Perinatal death auditing is necessary to identify preventable perinatal deaths. Int J Prev Med [serial online] 2022 [cited 2022 May 25];13:48. Available from: https://www.ijpvmjournal.net/text.asp?2022/13/1/48/342574 |
Perinatal Mortality rate (PMR) of India remains stable at 26 per 1000 births (for the year 2013) mainly because of slower reduction in early neonatal deaths.[1],[2],[3] Problems with infrastructure and quality of care for the newborn in India have been reported.[4] It stands to reason that improvements in infrastructure and quality of care would reduce the magnitude of perinatal deaths implying that some perinatal deaths are preventable. Government of India launched the “India Newborn Action Plan” under the National Health Mission in 2014, which envisages to reduce the neonatal death and stillbirth rates to single digits by the year 2030.[5] India Newborn Action Plan seeks to improve the infrastructure and quality of care.[5] Unfortunately this would not be enough. To identify preventable perinatal deaths, it is necessary to have perinatal death auditing.[6] Such a system would identify and reduce preventable perinatal deaths. This would result in achieving the goal that India new born action plan seeks to accomplish.
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