>> ^rychan:
Upvoted. Now can someone explain to me who this guy was?


His name is Jan Maas, and he was the assistant for "De Treffers Kegro Deuren", the dutch 3rd league team that played first leaguer NEC Nijmegen in this cup game.

Treffers lost 1:5, and amazingly the goal he prevented was not counted, since the rules say that if a so called "third person" enters the field, the play has to be interrupted, the person has to leave, and the game commences with a "dropped-Ball" in the same spot the ball was when the interfering person entered the pitch.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

From your linked article gluonium:
The main causes of neonatal mortality in developing countries are infectious diseases (36% of cases): pneumonia, tetanus and diarrhoea. Premature births (27%) and asphyxia (23%) are also major causes of infant mortality. In 60 to 80% of deaths, the child’s weight is very low, a condition related to the mother’s state of health.

So again, I would say that the causes are a reflection of poor health, nutrition and disease. I will battle your Google-fu with a bit of my own:

"For the Netherlands, as the only country with a sizable proportion of natural childbirths (home birth as proxy)…Dutch national perinatal statistics from 1986 …found that perinatal mortality rates were much higher for obstetricians in hospitals than for midwife-attended home care or midwife-attended hospital care, at all levels of risk when controlling for gestation, maternal age and parity" (p. 17---from studies by Treffers and Laan 1986 and Tew and Damstra-Wijmenga 1991).