Epidemiological characteristics of new borns in a rural community |
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Authors: | V P Reddaiah S K Kapoor Guresh Kumar |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, 110 029 New Delhi;(2) CRHS Project, Ballabgarh, Haryana |
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Abstract: | All births (1211) were recorded in a rural area for 1985 by monthly domiciliary visits and the sociological characteristics
were collected from mothers within a month. The analysis of 1201 births is presented: 52.7% were male births, 95.7% were delivered
in village itself, 80.4% were delivered by trained dais, 99.5% were live born, 12.9% were born before 37 weeks of gestation,
61.5% were put to breast feed within 6 hours, 35% were of gravida 4 and above, 68.9% did not receive any antenatal care, 67.1%
had not received any tetanus toxoid, 70.8% did not receive any folifer tablet, 0.8% had abortion and another 0.8% had still
birth in preceeding outcome, 1.58% had lost a live born dead in preceding out come, 89.6% stopped breast feeding at conception,
31.7% had birth interval less than 2 years, but 2.2% had less than ore year, 2/3rd were born in second half of the year, 17.8%
had taken extra food during pregnancy, 21.2% reduced the work after becoming pregnant, 9.5% were born to mothers of less than
20 years age, 98.5% of mothers were housewifes and 95.9% mothers were illiterate, 33.5% were born in nuclear family, 22.3%
were living in Kacha' house, 34.8% had no electricity connection, 37.0% were born to land less, 42.2% had no radio in the
house, 7.1% had no conveyance, 52.0% families had piped water supply. These findings have been discussed here. |
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Keywords: | Newborns Sociological characteristic Rural area |
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