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…
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…
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…