Triple return on investment: the cost and impact of 13 interventions that could prevent stillbirths and save the lives of mothers and babies in South Africa

Table 4 National distribution of births and stillbirths by level of facility (2012 and 2013)

	CHC	DH	RH	PT	NC	Total
Total births	229 933	654 115	386 334	69 470	72 503	1 412 355
Proportion of births (%)	16.3	46.3	27.4	4.9	5.1	100
SBR > 500 g	8.4	20.2	30.2	39.2	42.9	23.1
SBR > 1 000 g	6.2	16.4	22.6	28.8	27.9	17.6
Proportion of stillbirths (%)	5.9	40.5	35.7	8.3	9.5	100

CHC – Community Health Centre; DH – District Hospital; RH – Regional Hospital; PT – Provincial Tertiary Hospital; NC – National Central Hospital; SBR – stillbirth rate per 1 000 births. Source: [6].

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