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neonatal mortality

neonatal mortality

1 6.0
The rate of babies who die in their first 28 days
  • noun
  • /ˌniːoʊˈneɪtəl mɔːrˈtælɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mortalidad neonatal
  • Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) and neonatal mortality rate (per 1000 live births) are 56 and 36 respectively.
  • neonatal mortality rate

Examples

  • In fact, a careful analysis of trends in infant and neonatal mortality shows that the rate of decline is not significantly different from that of the pre-Chávez period, nor from the rate of decline in other Latin American countries.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Although the neonatal mortality rate ranges from 1.9% to 12% in different series, anomalies in newborns have not been associated with antepartum maternal pneumonia.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The study began as an investigation of neonatal mortality.

    Academic text (1993)
  • An increased neonatal mortality of 0.3% represents 12,948 dead babies (based on this).

    Blog text (19)
  • Conveniently, that allowed them to leave out the Dutch study because it reported only on early (0-7 day) neonatal mortality.

    Blog text (19)
  • In LMICs, CHWs have been found to be effective in reducing neonatal mortality, child mortality attributable to pneumonia, and mortality caused by malaria.

    Academic text (2013)
  • When the authors isolated the neonatal risk from the perinatal risk, they chose to include only studies that looked at combined early (0-7 days) and late (8-28 days) neonatal mortality (deaths in the first 28 days).

    Blog text (19)
  • The report highlighted the alarming rates of neonatal mortality in the region.

  • Efforts to improve healthcare access have led to a decrease in neonatal mortality over the past decade.

  • Many organizations are focusing on reducing neonatal mortality to improve overall child health outcomes.

Synonyms

neonatal mortality rate
vsneonatal mortality
  • Specialized
6.1

Number of babies who die in their first 28 days for every 1,000 live births

is the general measure of newborn deaths in the first 28 days without a denominator

How Common

infant mortality
  • Specialized
20 4.1
neonatal mortality
  • Specialized
1 6.0
neonatal death
  • Specialized
1 5.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

neonatal + mortality

The meaning is directly compositional: 'neonatal' restricts to the newborn period and 'mortality' denotes deaths or death rate, so together they mean deaths among newborns (within the first month). This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common nominal compound and a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Neonatal mortality is made of neonatal, meaning a new baby, and mortality, meaning death. It describes how many newborns die in their first 28 days, so it means 'the death rate of newborns'.