Six months longitudinal abservation infant's morbidity was carried out on the Exclusively Breast-fed (EBF) and Non Exclusively Breast-fed (NEBF) cohorts. Babies born in Kariadi Hospital Semarang with normal birth weight, vigorous, singleton, full term, were included in the study. Those suffering from neonatal infection, jaundice and severe congenital anomaly were exluded. Some potential cofound…
In the Demographic and Health Survey, the life pregnancy histories of adult sisters were collected from respondents, and the sisterhood method was used to estimate the life time risks and maternal mortality rations, referring to the time period of 12 years before the survey. Maternal mortality level in Indonesia is found to be high as compared to other ASEAN countries although the family planni…
In Indonesia, the National Household Survey (SKRT) is still the main source of information on causes of death, which is now integrated with the National Socio Economic Survey (Susenas). The SKRT uses technique of verbal autopsy with open questions then classifies the diseases using ICD 10 there were 1,719 cases obtained with 97.8 percent response rate of deaths reported by Susenas to SKRT. Even…
A prospective study was conducted to investing the risk factors of still-birth and neonatal death at Petarukan District, Pemalang, Indonesia. Six hundreds thirteen pregnant women was followed-up by midwives and then the infants were also evaluated up to the end of neonatal period. The incident of still-birth was 9.7 permil and the incident of neonatal death was 29.7 permil. Most of the neonatal…
This paper discussed the different pattern of morbidity and mortality between male and female. The secondary data was collected from literatures and related research results, and analized descriptively to attain morbidity and mortality pattern of both male and female. Females life expectancy at birth was tend to be loner than male. Death rate among female children under one year and at the scho…
A prospective study has been conducted on 102 underfives in Marunda. North Jakarta. The Focus of investigation was the mother's profile (reproductive pattern and schooling) and the underfive mortality. A disrepancy was found between the mother's perception and her adoption of the reproductive pattern, in the sence that although 55 percent of mothers had a good perception on reproduction, behavi…