5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  Maternal health conditions, low birth weight, and limited antenatal care are consistently linked to neonatal death.

• 2

  The strongest risk factors for neonatal death include preterm birth, low birth weight, and maternal obesity.

• 3

  Antenatal care attendance and facility-based delivery are associated with reduced neonatal mortality.

• 4

  The review included 2,742 primary studies, but most were of low or critically low methodological quality.

• 5

  The researchers called for better-designed studies and improved data representation from underreported regions.