Burn injuries form a major part of the spectrum of trauma which absorbs so much of the health care resources in developing countries. The Jamaica Burn Programme was established to address this problem, through the collection and analysis of local information about burns and through the education of healt...
The Jamaican Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Survey was conducted between September 1986 and August 1987. A total of 10310 consecutive birth were identified and mothers interviewed in the first 2 months (main cohort study), 1405 neonatal admissions were evaluated over a 6-month period (morbidity study)...
An evaluation of perinatal services in institutions was undertaken as part of the perinatal morbidity and mortality survey of Jamaica 1986-1987. Observations were made of obstetric practice and immediate neonatal care on five randomly selected days during September and October 1986 using a standard quest...
A random sample of 78 district midwives, representing 24 por ciento of all district midwives in the government health service, were interviewed to assess their knowledge and practice of domiciliary midwifery as part of the Jamaican Perinital Morbidity and Mortality Survey in 1986. A standard questionnair...
This study analysed data from a national sample of 10,428 mothers who had births occuring in Jamaica in September and October 1986 in order to identify which socio-economic and environmental features best predicted health problems of the mother and the baby. The four categories of problems arising during...
Social and environmental factors were related to preterm delivery in a national population of 10,330 singleton births occuring in the Jamaican National Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Survey of 1986. Among women certain of their dates, the preterm delivery rate was 14.2 por ciento . Initial two-way tab...
A large population-based study of all stillbirths and neonatal deaths occuring on the island of Jamaica during a 12 month period is described. During this time, 2069 perinatal deaths were identified from an estimated population of 54,400 total births giving a perinatal death rate of 38.0 per 1000 total b...
Data from the Jamaican Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Survey, 1986-1987, were analysed in order to examine the frequency of pathological markers of asphyxia and birth trauma amongst fresh stillbirths and neonatal deaths in babies coming to necropsy. A total number of 1112 necropsies were performed. Th...
