COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RISK FACTORS IN THE INCIDENCE OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT: A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY IN GOVERNMENT GENERAL HOSPITAL, VIJAYAWADA.

Chandra Mohan.P; Nishanth Madala; Sreenivasa chowdary.J

Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2017

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RISK FACTORS IN THE INCIDENCE OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT: A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY IN GOVERNMENT GENERAL HOSPITAL, VIJAYAWADA.

Chandra Mohan. P, Nishanth Madala, Sreenivasa Chowdary. J

Abstract :

In developing countries like india, 74 percent of india’s population live in rural areas, most of the deliveries (70–90%) are conducted at home by traditional birth attendant and untrained relatives, where weighing facility does not even exist. The logistic problems such as a non availability of weighing machine is a big hurdle in recording the birth weight even though the deliveries are conducted by properly trained health personnel. As a result in many cases low birth weight babies remain undetected, which also reflects adversely upon the high risk approach to ensure better child survival. Hence it is imperative to identify the new born with low birth weight and to offer them adequate and need care instantly for survival.

Thus the present study was conducted with an aim to find out an alternative simple, cheap, reliable, acceptable method for identification of low birth weight babies that can be used by a person with little training.