Impact of a community-based perinatal and newborn preventive care package on perinatal and neonatal mortality in a remote mountainous district in Northern Pakistan

Table 2 Comparison of pre and post intervention in vital characteristics

Characteristics	Pre intervention			Post intervention
Characteristics	Intervention areas	Control areas	p-value	Intervention areas	Control areas	p-value
Live births	846	854		833	842
Total births	871	875		849	863
Still births	25	21		16	21
Perinatal deaths	41	45		30	48
Early Neonatal deaths	16	24		14	27
Neonatal deaths	22	34		19	33
Infant deaths	26	37		10	27
Perinatal Mortality Rate per 1000 total births	47.1	51.4	0.76	35.3	55.6	0.02
Early Neonatal Mortality Rate per 1000 live births	19.0	28.1	0.24	16.8	32.1	0.02
Neonatal Mortality Rate per 1000 live births	26.0	39.8	0.13	22.8	39.2	0.03

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