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The Low Birthweight Problem
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... This summary volume is intended to provide a brief overview of the issues covered in the full report and is cTirected to health care practitioners, legislators and their staffs, government aciministrators, and all others interested in the prevention of low birthweight in infants. Support for the Committee to Study the Prevention of Low Birthweight was proviclecT principally by the Commonwealth Fund, with additional support from the Ford Foundation, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Research Council Fund.
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... Even after controlling statistically for birthweight, postneonatal mortality rates remain higher for nonwhite infants, infants of teenage mothers, and infants of mothers of low educational attainment. Thus, factors typical of socioeconomic disadvantage are linked to increased infant mortality through both higher Tow birthweight rates and a birthweight-indepenclent risk of postneonatal death.
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Key Terms

  • birthweight infants
  • tow birthweight
  • normal birthweight
  • infant mortality
  • child health

  • neonatal intensive
  • intensive care
  • decreasing birthweight
  • tract infections
  • seizure disorders

  • prevent tow
  • poor weight
  • state data
  • intrauterine growth
  • recent decline

  • especially neonatal
  • dimes birth
  • respiratory tract
  • cerebral palsy
  • increased commitment

  • ford foundation
  • decrease low
  • increased risk
  • postneonatal death
  • fetal growth

  • increased infant
  • require major
  • premature birth
  • severely affected
  • growth retarclation


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