.png "Philippines Low-birthweight babies (% of births)")
| Data: | Low-birthweight babies (% of births) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SH.STA.BRTW.ZS | ||||||||
| Topic: | Health: Nutrition | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Low-birthweight babies are newborns weighing less than 2,500 grams, with the measurement taken within the first hours of life, before significant postnatal weight loss has occurred. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | Estimates
of low-birth-weight infants are drawn mostly from hospital records and
household surveys. Many births in developing countries take place at home and
are seldom recorded. A hospital birth may indicate higher income and
therefore better nutrition, or it could indicate a higher risk birth. Caution
should therefore be used in interpreting the data. For the data from household surveys, the year refers to the survey year. For more information, consult the original sources. |
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| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys by ICF International. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | Low
birth-weight, which is associated with maternal malnutrition, raises the risk
of infant mortality and stunts growth in infancy and childhood. There is also
emerging evidence that low-birth-weight babies are more prone to
non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Low
birth-weight can arise as a result of a baby being born too soon or too small
for gestational age. Babies born prematurely, who are also small for their
gestational age, have the worst prognosis. In low- and middle-income countries low birth-weight stems primarily from poor maternal health and nutrition. Three factors have the most impact: poor maternal nutritional status before conception, mother's short stature (due mostly to under-nutrition and infections during childhood), and poor nutrition during pregnancy (United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF], www.childinfo.org). |
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| Development relevance: | 0 | ||||||||
