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Socioeconomic factors and low birth weight in Mexico

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Title
Socioeconomic factors and low birth weight in Mexico
Published in
BMC Public Health, March 2005
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-5-20
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Authors

Laura P Torres-Arreola, Patricia Constantino-Casas, Sergio Flores-Hernández, Juan Pablo Villa-Barragán, Enrique Rendón-Macías

Abstract

Low birth weight (LBW) is a public health problem linked to lack of equity in populations. Despite efforts to decrease the proportion of newborns with LBW, success has been quite limited. In recent years, studies focused on explaining how social factors influence this problem have shown that populations with greater inequities have a greater proportion of newborns with LBW.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Unknown 126 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 18%
Researcher 19 15%
Student > Master 15 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Student > Postgraduate 9 7%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 30 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 40 31%
Social Sciences 17 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Other 19 15%
Unknown 32 25%