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Table 3 Trends in Delivery and Mortality Rates by Site

From: Institutional deliveries and stillbirth and neonatal mortality in the Global Network's Maternal and Newborn Health Registry

Year

Overall Births, N

Institutional Delivery N (%)

Overall N (95% CI)

Stillbirth rate

(per 1000 births)

Neonatal mortality < 28 days rate

(per 1000 live births)

Kenya

 2010

9177

3242 (35.8)

19.3 (14.6, 25.5)

19.0 (13.3, 27.0)

 2011

9523

3672 (39.0)

16.6 (12.2, 22.5)

12.3 (9.8, 15.3)

 2012

8905

3690 (41.9)

25.6 (20.1, 32.6)

13.6 (10.8, 17.2)

 2013

8460

4236 (50.8)

19.5 (14.9, 25.6)

13.8 (11.0, 17.5)

 2014

7875

5037 (64.8)

23.0 (18.3, 28.7)

11.5 (8.9, 14.9)

 2015

7761

5560 (72.5)

21.7 (17.1, 27.5)

11.0 (8.4, 14.5)

 2016

7692

5890 (77.5)

20.1 (16.6, 24.3)

12.6 (9.8, 16.3)

 2017

7729

5386 (70.6)

22.6 (19.3, 26.5)

13.6 (9.9, 18.8)

 2018

7692

6587 (86.7)

15.8 (12.6, 19.7)

11.8 (8.4, 16.5)

Birth-Level Analyses: Adjusted Linear trend p-value1

 

0.4926

0.1419

Cluster-Level Analyses of mortality outcome with institutional delivery rate (IDR)

 Odds ratio for 1 unit increase in IDR (p-value)

 

0.87 (0.5165)

 

 Partial correlation coefficient with IDR (p-value)

 

−0.04 (0.6299)

−0.18 (0.0414)

Zambia

 2010

7137

3571 (50.5)

24.2 (18.2, 32.1)

22.8 (17.5, 29.6)

 2011

7113

4070 (57.7)

17.5 (12.5, 24.6)

15.9 (12.4, 20.4)

 2012

6780

4458 (66.3)

18.9 (14.6, 24.6)

16.6 (12.3, 22.5)

 2013

6798

4666 (69.3)

18.7 (14.4, 24.4)

15.2 (11.8, 19.7)

 2014

6671

5171 (78.2)

13.6 (10.3, 17.9)

13.4 (8.8, 20.5)

 2015

7265

5936 (82.7)

13.4 (8.7, 20.7)

13.9 (10.5, 18.4)

 2016

7322

6054 (83.5)

16.6 (13.3, 20.7)

16.1 (12.8, 20.2)

 2017

7074

6048 (86.6)

16.8 (13.4, 21.2)

13.2 (9.4, 18.5)

 2018

6839

5968 (88.2)

16.0 (12.5, 20.5)

9.2 (6.9, 12.3)

Birth-Level Analyses: Adjusted Linear trend p-value1

 

0.9896

0.0005

Cluster-Level Analyses of mortality outcome with institutional delivery rate (IDR)

 Odds ratio for 1 unit increase in IDR (p-value)

 

0.59 (0.0704)

0.45 (0.0092)

 Partial correlation coefficient with IDR (p-value)

 

−0.23 (0.0398)

−0.28 (0.0127)

Guatemala

 2010

4042

1134 (28.2)

20.7 (16.5, 26.0)

27.5 (21.4, 35.4)

 2011

5900

2023 (34.5)

19.5 (15.4, 24.7)

22.4 (18.2, 27.5)

 2012

5843

2422 (41.7)

15.2 (11.2, 20.7)

17.3 (13.6, 22.1)

 2013

6761

3234 (48.1)

17.3 (13.8, 21.8)

22.0 (18.6, 25.9)

 2014

7010

3447 (49.5)

14.5 (11.7, 18.0)

29.4 (25.8, 33.5)

 2015

7326

3710 (51.0)

18.6 (14.0, 24.9)

25.2 (21.1, 30.0)

 2016

7905

3941 (50.2)

19.9 (15.4, 25.6)

26.9 (23.3, 31.0)

 2017

7410

4013 (54.4)

18.9 (14.7, 24.3)

20.0 (15.7, 25.4)

 2018

6854

3931 (57.7)

16.5 (13.8, 19.7)

21.9 (18.3, 26.3)

Birth-Level Analyses: Adjusted Linear trend p-value1

 

0.4570

0.0324

Cluster-Level Analyses of mortality outcome with institutional delivery rate (IDR)

 Odds ratio for 1 unit increase in IDR (p-value)

  

0.68 (0.0859)

 Partial correlation coefficient with IDR (p-value)

 

−0.40 (0.0002)

−0.12 (0.2816)

Belagavi, India

 2010

11,922

10,961 (92.7)

21.5 (17.7, 26.0)

24.4 (20.3, 29.2)

 2011

12,263

11,559 (94.9)

20.7 (16.5, 26.0)

21.9 (16.3, 29.4)

 2012

12,831

12,173 (95.7)

20.1 (17.3, 23.3)

21.3 (18.0, 25.1)

 2013

11,793

11,245 (96.1)

15.0 (12.8, 17.6)

23.6 (20.7, 26.9)

 2014

6942

6529 (94.8)

15.8 (12.7, 19.6)

22.0 (19.1, 25.4)

 2015

6637

6360 (96.6)

14.1 (10.8, 18.3)

18.5 (16.1, 21.3)

 2016

6254

6086 (98.0)

13.6 (10.7, 17.2)

16.6 (13.9, 19.7)

 2017

5641

5492 (97.9)

11.2 (9.6, 13.0)

18.1 (16.4, 20.1)

 2018

5196

5079 (98.7)

9.7 (7.3, 13.0)

13.0 (10.1, 16.7)

Birth-Level Analyses: Adjusted Linear trend p-value1

 

0.0049

0.0243

Cluster-Level Analyses of mortality outcome with institutional delivery rate (IDR)

 Odds ratio for 1 unit increase in IDR (p-value)

 

0.04 (0.0006)

0.08 (0.0018)

 Partial correlation coefficient with IDR (p-value)

 

−0.33 (0.0011)

−0.27 (0.0083)

Nagpur, India

 2010

9719

8671 (90.0)

28.6 (24.9, 33.0)

23.5 (19.8, 27.8)

 2011

9203

8823 (96.6)

20.7 (18.0, 23.9)

17.9 (14.7, 21.9)

 2012

9184

8939 (98.1)

22.0 (19.0, 25.6)

21.7 (18.2, 25.9)

 2013

9568

9364 (98.8)

20.7 (18.0, 23.9)

23.5 (19.8, 27.8)

 2014

8762

8628 (99.1)

19.6 (16.0, 24.0)

18.7 (15.6, 22.4)

 2015

9469

9335 (99.5)

19.4 (16.2, 23.2)

17.7 (15.3, 20.6)

 2016

8699

8557 (99.5)

17.8 (14.4, 21.9)

20.6 (18.2, 23.2)

 2017

7987

7913 (99.8)

16.5 (13.6, 19.9)

16.5 (14.1, 19.3)

 2018

7037

6971 (99.8)

11.5 (8.8, 15.1)

18.0 (15.4, 21.2)

Birth-Level Analyses: Adjusted Linear trend p-value1, 2

 

<.0001

 

Cluster-Level Analyses of mortality outcome with institutional delivery rate (IDR)

 Odds ratio for 1 unit increase in IDR (p-value)

 

0.04 (<.0001)

0.22 (0.0302)

 Partial correlation coefficient with IDR (p-value)

 

−0.42 (<.0001)

−0.17 (0.0369)

Pakistan

 2010

8088

3677 (46.1)

46.2 (39.3, 54.1)

51.3 (42.7, 61.5)

 2011

8120

4002 (50.0)

51.4 (43.0, 61.4)

58.3 (50.8, 66.8)

 2012

6890

3455 (50.8)

49.1 (43.6, 55.4)

46.5 (40.0, 54.1)

 2013

7033

4002 (57.7)

59.5 (50.1, 70.8)

51.7 (45.8, 58.4)

 2014

6844

4105 (60.6)

50.9 (44.6, 58.2)

45.0 (41.0, 49.4)

 2015

6396

3955 (62.7)

47.0 (40.4, 54.7)

52.8 (45.9, 60.7)

 2016

6089

3910 (65.0)

43.1 (36.6, 50.8)

48.3 (43.4, 53.7)

 2017

5958

4014 (68.1)

42.1 (37.5, 47.3)

48.3 (43.1, 54.1)

 2018

5769

4137 (72.5)

40.8 (35.5, 46.9)

50.2 (45.2, 55.7)

Birth-Level Analyses: Adjusted Linear trend p-value1

 

<.0001

0.0011

Cluster-Level Analyses of mortality outcome with institutional delivery rate (IDR)

 Odds ratio for 1 unit increase in IDR (p-value)

 

0.50 (0.0015)

0.86 (0.4499)

 Partial correlation coefficient with IDR (p-value)

 

−0.23 (0.0259)

−0.07 (0.4756)

  1. 1 Adjusted linear models control for the following characteristics: maternal age, maternal education, parity, multiple birth, and categorized infant birth weight
  2. 2 The adjusted model for GN11 Nagpur failed to converge due to a low number of cases among Community birth