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Impact of antenatal care on neonatal mortality among neonates in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- The effect of antenatal care on low birth weight and neonatal mortality: protocol for umbrella review of meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Impact of health facility delivery and antenatal care on neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a propensity score matching analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Under-five mortality and its associated factors in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health surveys data based on Bayesian approach.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Incidence and predictors of preterm neonatal mortality at public hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia: A prospective follow-up study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Decentralizing and task sharing within the primary health system improved access and quality of ANC services in Amhara and Oromia regions: pre-post health facility data.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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- Inadequate weight gain and factors influencing it among preterm neonates in neonatal intensive care units in the Amhara region, Ethiopia, in 2022.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Treatment outcomes and its associated factors among neonates admitted with sepsis in Hiwot Fana Comprehensive Specialized University Hospital, Harar, Ethiopia.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Determinants of neonatal deaths in Indonesia: A national survey data analysis of 10,838 newborns.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Effect of optimal antenatal care on maternal and perinatal health in Ethiopia.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Technology-based innovative healthcare solutions for improving maternal and child health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: A network meta-analysis protocol.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Magnitude of neonatal near miss in public hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study.SAGE open medicine · 2022Article
- Development and Validation of a Clinical Prognostic Risk Score to Predict Early Neonatal Mortality, Ethiopia: A Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Analysis.Clinical epidemiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAs compared to other regions of the world, Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) is the region with the highest neonatal mortality and is the region showing the least progress in the reduction of newborn death. Despite better progress made in reducing neonatal mortality, Ethiopia contributes the highest rate of neonatal death in Africa. In Ethiopia, findings from few studies were inconsistent and there is a need to systematically pool existing data to determine the impact of antenatal care on neonatal mortality among mother-neonate pairs in Ethiopia.
methodsPublished articles from various electronic databases such as Medline, Hinari, Pub Med, Cochrane library, the Web of Science, and Google Scholar were accessed. Also, unpublished studies from library catalogs were identified. All observational studies that were conducted on the association between antenatal care follow-up and neonatal mortality among neonates in Ethiopia were included. Data were extracted on the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and analyzed using STATA 14.1 version. A random-effects model was used to estimate the pooled estimate with a 95% confidence interval (CI). Forest plots were used to visualize the presence of heterogeneity and estimate the pooled impact on antenatal care on neonatal mortality. The presence of publication bias was assessed by funnel plots and Egger's statistical tests.
resultsInitially, a total of 345 studies were accessed. Finally, 28 full-text studies were reviewed and fourteen studies fulfilled inclusion criteria and included in the final meta-analysis. The overall pooled estimate indicates the odds of neonatal death among neonates from women with antenatal care were 65% lower than those neonates from women who had no antenatal care follow-up (OR: 0.35, 95% CI: 0.24, 0.51).
conclusionsIn this systematic review and meta-analysis, lack of ANC follow-up increase the probability of neonatal mortality as compared to having ANC follow-up. Thus, we will recommend for more coverages of appropriate antenatal care where risk groups can best be identified and managed.
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