Discuss disparities related to ethnic and cultural groups relative to low birth weight infants and preterm births. Describe the impact of extremely low birth weight babies on family and society (short and long term‚ including economic considerations‚ ongoing care considerations‚ and comorbidities associated with prematurity). Discuss whether you feel that support services and systems in your community for preterm infants and their families adequately address their needs or not. Explain your answer. Respond
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Babies are developed in a woman’s womb for 9 months. Sometimes they can be delivered prematurely depending on the status of the baby. It can be because of medical conditions and or miscarriages. For low birth weight babies‚ they are the ones who are born in full term but weighs lighter. Not like premature babies who are born before their due date. There are different reasons why babies are born in low weight. Having twins can cause low birth weighy because there’s not enough room to grow inside a
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programs 3. understanding local epidemiology of the problem 4. assessing changes in trend of disease or its distribution 5. identifying specific groups at risk 6. to enable predictions about pattern of occurrence of diseases 7. in assessing the impact of the programme intervention for control of diseases Methods Passive surveillance: It is the routine reporting of the cases of diseases reaching health care facilities for treatment or service.No special effort is made to find unsuspected disease
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Babies who weight 5.5 pounds (2500grams) or less at birth are low babies with low birth weight. Babies weighing 3.3 pounds (1500 grams) or less are Very low birth weight babies. There is a significant medical and social cost for low birth weight infants and preterm births. Low birth weight is a major predictor of infant mortality. Ethnic and cultural group’s disparities related to low birth weight infant and preterm infant are significantly disproportionate‚ affecting minority Americans. Although
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Disparities of Low Birth Weight Babies Low birth weight (less than 2‚500 grams) is one of the leading causes of infant mortality‚ and low birth weight infants who survive are at an increased risk of having developmental disabilities. One of the goals of Healthy People 2010 is to eliminate health disparities‚ and one of the Healthy People 2010 objectives (16-1c) is to reduce the prevalence of low birth weight infants to 5%. There is a significant disparity in the proportion of low birth weight infants
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Low birth weight and preterm babies in United States is increasing. Low birth weight babies are babies who are born with the birth weight of less than 5 lbs. either due to preterm delivery or due to restriction of growth inside the uterus. These low birth weight babies are at increased risk for early death and long-term health and developmental issues than infants born later in pregnancy or at higher birth weights. Not all preterm infants are low birth weight‚ and vice versa. Racial/Ethnic
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neonatal care might have an indirect effect on low-birth weight For the last 20 years‚ thanks to advances in neonatal technology‚ doctors were able to save babies whose time spent in the womb had to be shortened because of particular problems. Those preterm childbirth also seem to pose a problem of low-birth weight among the babies conceived with the help of neonatal technologies. Low birthweight is a weight of less than 5 pounds‚ 8 ounces‚ low birth weight can cause heart & respiratory diseases
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One out of thirty-three babies is born with a birth defect. A birth defect is an abnormal development of the fetus resulting in death‚ malformation‚ growth retardation‚ and functional disorders. ”If a baby is born with a part of their body missing or malformed‚ it is referred to as a structural birth defect. Heart defects are the most common types.” (Healthline) “In 1979-89‚ according to the CDC‚ there were thirty-eight different types of birth defects‚ twenty-seven of them were increased‚ nine stayed
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Families Social Impact on Society SOC 101- Introduction to Sociology Kimberly Avalle October 24‚ 2011 Most people think of a family as the nuclear family having the father‚ mother‚ and their children in the household. However‚ families are now portrayed in many different ways other than the traditional family. There are single parent families‚ families without children‚ stepfamilies‚ extended families‚ and same-sex families. In a family‚ you must have an identity a sense that you belong.
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After doing this assignment I realized some of the reason that low-income families do what they do. It is very hard for a family to live off of a minimum wage salary; it doesn’t matter if it is a single parent or a two-parent household. The more people are in a household‚ the more expenses there will be‚ I never really thought about that concept until doing this assignment. Something’s that some people might take for granted can actually be a luxury to others. A car for example‚ I never realized
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