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Increase In Hospital Births Helps Lower Neonatal Mortality Rate In China, Study Says
A campaign that began in 2000 encouraging women in China to give birth in hospitals instead of at home helped cut the nation's neonatal mortality rate by 62 percent between 1996 and 2008, according to a study by researchers from Peking University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, BBC News reports. For the study, published Friday in the Lancet, researchers analyzed "data from China's Maternal and Mortality Surveillance System to examine trends in neonatal mortality by cause and socioeconomic region," the news service writes (9/15).
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