Four decades of measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Demographic and Health Surveys: historical review

摘要

• What was known already: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have been the main source of information on child mortality in most low- and middle-income countries over the past three and a half decades, and the major data input for two thirds of the world’s estimated 5.1 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths.