Neonatal Health Services in Turkey

In the assessment of the development levels of countries, one of the important indicators is the infant and the neonatal mortality. Every year 130 million babies born in the world and four million of them are lost in the neonatal period. It has been reported that 41% of deaths under five year is in the neonatal period in 2008. In our country until recently, mortality rate not parallel to economic level of our country has been sadness for the physicians and the other staff dealing with children's health. Except a few of our neighbor countries we had more negative figures than all. However, the recent studies show that in our country there is a significant decrease in; under five years, infant and neonatal mortality rates.