neonatal mortality
- noun
- /ˌniːoʊˈneɪtəl mɔːrˈtælɪti/
- Specialized
- Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) and neonatal mortality rate (per 1000 live births) are 56 and 36 respectively.
- neonatal mortality rate
Examples
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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.
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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.
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Efforts to improve healthcare access have led to a decrease in neonatal mortality over the past decade.
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Many organizations are focusing on reducing neonatal mortality to improve overall child health outcomes.
Synonyms
Number of babies who die in their first 28 days for every 1,000 live births
How Common
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.