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Health and Nutritional Status of Rural Teenage Pregnant Girls and Prevalence of Low Birth Weight


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1 Department of Foods and Nutrition, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India
2 Amaravathi Institute of Medical sciences, Guntur, A.P., India
3 Department of Statistics, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India
     

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Low birth weight (LBW) remains an unresolved important national concern in India. Twenty-nine per cent of infant mortality rate is associated with LBW in india. Twentythree per cent of the newborns in India have LBW. The prevalence is silghtiy higher in rural areas (24.1 %) than in urban areas (21 %). The prevalence has remained almost static over the last one decade. In a rural area of Haryana, LBW prevalence was 25.3 per cent in 1982-1984 and 25 per cent in 1997-1998.
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D. Jalaja Kumari
Department of Foods and Nutrition, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India
B. Sri Hari Krishna
Amaravathi Institute of Medical sciences, Guntur, A.P., India
G. V. S. R. Anjaneyulu
Department of Statistics, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India

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Low birth weight (LBW) remains an unresolved important national concern in India. Twenty-nine per cent of infant mortality rate is associated with LBW in india. Twentythree per cent of the newborns in India have LBW. The prevalence is silghtiy higher in rural areas (24.1 %) than in urban areas (21 %). The prevalence has remained almost static over the last one decade. In a rural area of Haryana, LBW prevalence was 25.3 per cent in 1982-1984 and 25 per cent in 1997-1998.