Birth Weight

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Survey Examines Rural Guatemalan Attitudes toward Childhood Illness and Pregnancy — Sep 15, 2010

The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support, and health beliefs in this process.

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Endowments and Parental Investments in Infancy and Early Childhood — Dec 31, 2009

This article tests whether parents reinforce or compensate for child endowments.

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Which Factors Explain the Decline in Infant and Child Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh? — Dec 31, 2008

The authors use data from the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System on nearly 94,000 singleton live births that occurred between 1987 and 2002 to investigate the extent to which the change in mortality over this period can be explained by changes in repr

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Birth Weight Effects on Children's Mental, Motor, and Physical Development: Evidence from Twins Data — Dec 31, 2008

Determine the effect of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) and moderately low birth weight (MLBW; 1500-2499 g) on children's mental and motor development and physical growth during the first 2 years of life and whether VLBW and MLBW babies catch up to normal birth weight (NBW; >/=2500 g) children by age 2.

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Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Program — Dec 31, 2008

Moderate iodine deficiency in Mexican schoolchildren was associated with a 4.26 times higher risk of low IQ. More attention is needed to ensure effective salt iodination processes.

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The Response of Household Parental Investment to Child Endowments — Sep 1, 2008

The empirical results of this paper imply that such household parental investments compensate for low endowments, as proxied by low birth weight.

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The provision of neonatal services: Data for international comparisons — Dec 31, 2007

Gathers information on the provision of neonatal services in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the United States, Canada, Sweden and Australia. It was produced to support the National Audit Office’s Value for Money study of neonatal services in England. Therefore, the report aims to provide a compendium of relevant data to facilitate comparisons and benchmarking of neonatal services (organisation, statistics, and so on).

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Population-based Assessments of Ophthalmologic and Audiologic Follow-Up in Children with Very Low Birth Weight Enrolled in Medicaid: A Quality-of-Care Study — Dec 31, 2007

Finds a shortfall in provision of critical services for children with very low birth weight (<1500 g) at high risk for vision and hearing problems and enrolled in Medicaid. Findings support the importance of enrollment in Early Intervention Program.

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Early Childhood Intervention Programs Save Money, Benefit Children — Jan 12, 2006

Well-designed programs for disadvantaged children return more to society in benefits than they cost by enabling youngsters to lead more successful lives and be less dependent on future government assistance. Savings can range from $1.26 to $17 for each $1 spent on the programs.

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Quality-of-care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process — Dec 31, 2005

To develop a set of quality indicators for the neurodevelopmental follow-up care of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) children

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Mortality Among Very Low-Birthweight Infants in Hospitals Serving Minority Populations — Dec 31, 2004

The authors investigated whether the proportion of Black very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants treated by hospitals is associated with neonatal mortality for Black and White VLBW infants.

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Is Patient Volume a Useful Quality Measure for Very Low Birthweight Infants? — Dec 31, 2003

The goal of the study was to assess how accurately patient volume predicts quality of care for VLBW infants and to compare volume with direct indicators, such as patient mortality.

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Fetal Infants: the fate of 4172 infants with birth weights of 401 to 500 grams, the Vermont Oxford Network experience (1996-2000) — Dec 31, 2003

There is very little information about long-term outcomes, as the medical and developmental status of few of these infants has been followed carefully.

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Variations in the Quality of Care for Very-Low-Birthweight Infants: Implications for Policy : Two Approaches Hold Promise for Improving U.S. Infant Mortality Rates, Which Are Among the Highest in the Industrialized World. — Dec 31, 2003

Much of the decline in childhood mortality over the past two decades is attributable to improvements in neonatal intensive care for very-low-birthweight infants.

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Marginal Increase in Cost and Excess Length of Stay Associated with Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in Surviving Very Low Birth Weight Infants — Dec 31, 2003

Nosocomial bloodstream infections (NBIs) are associated with serious morbidity and prolonged length of stay (LOS) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants.

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Indirect Vs Direct Hospital Quality Indicators for Very Low-Birth Weight Infants — Dec 31, 2003

Evidence-based selective referral strategies are being used by an increasing number of insurers to ensure that medical care is provided by high-quality providers.

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Designing Multidisciplinary Biobehavioral Research on Prematurity and Low Birth Weight: Methodological Considerations — Dec 31, 2002

The author emphasizes a population health approach to the problems of prematurity and low birth weight, placing the onus of population health on society rather than on the individual.

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An Investigation of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birthweight in Chicago Neighborhoods — Dec 31, 2002

Differences in the mean birth weight of infants born to non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Mexican-origin Hispanic mothers (of any race) in Chicago in 1990.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Using Economic Information in a Quality Improvement Collaborative — Dec 31, 2002

This article provides an overview of neonatal intensive care unit treatment costs for hospitals that participated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Quality Improvement Collaborative Year 2000 (NIC/Q 2000) quality improvement collaborative and discusses how economic information can be used in quality improvement efforts.

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Socioeconomic Gradients and Low Birth-Weight: Empirical and Policy Considerations — Dec 31, 2002

Although a materialist explanation for early-life SES gradients seems the most plausible (vis-a-vis psychosocial and occupational explanations), more research is needed to discover potential interventions.

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