The Analysis on situation of newborn asphyxia death in Beijing 1998～2002.

Objective:To know situation of newborn asphyxia death in Beijing. Methods:To Analyze the data of newborn death in Beijing during 1998～2002. Results:In general, the newborn asphyxia specific mortality rate tend to decrease from 1.31‰ in 1998 declined to 0.93% in 2002. Distribution of area shows 17.02%～22.22% in city, 39.68%～48.94% in the area of near the central of city,30.77%～38.00% in rural area. The proportion of newborn go to the hospital at city and county level, before death is 93% higher and 92% higher were admitted. Conclusion:Training for neonatal resuscitation play an important role in decreasing neonatal asphyxia specific mortality .The fact that proportion of neonatal asphyxia death in rural area is higher than the others predict transportion system should be found and training for identification risk sign.Suggest stress on applying study on prevention and treatment asphysia in pregnancy as well as training for neonatal resuscitation and try to reduce neonatal asphyxia specific mortality rate in raising quality of population circumstances.