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Our study aimed to analyse the effects of environmental temperature on overall, very early, early and late neonatal acute mortality in five East African countries using the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We obtained neonatal mortality data from the DHS conducted between 2016 and 2022, capturing births and deaths occurring between 2011 and 2022. Our outcomes were (1) overall neonatal mortality (days 0\u201327), (2) very early (day 0); (3) early (days 1\u20136) and (4) late neonatal mortality (days 7\u201327). Daily mean temperature was constructed from ERA5-Land and assigned at the household level. We used a time-stratified case-crossover design with distributed lag non-linear models (0\u20136-day lag) to estimate odds of mortality with exposure to the 5th and 95th temperature percentiles (vs the median). 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