The objective of the study is to prove the influence of anemic on the third trimester pregnancy on the incidence of low birth weight, prematurity and intra uterine growth retardation (IUGR). Design of the study was restropective cohort. Data source was compiled from Prospective Study of health and Family Planning in Sliyeg and Gabus Wetan Sub-District, Indramayu Regency, West Java Province on A…
Finding from some studies have indicated that low birth weight have a greater risk of encountering health problems during their first weeks of life and that these problems may lead to death during the neonatal or post-neonatal periods. This study analyzed the effect of adolescent marriage (or strictly speaking adolescent pregnancy) on the risk of low birth weight. Data for this study are drawn …
It is essential to weight the baby accurately at birth so that apropriate measures can be taken to minimize the risk. In rural areas, most deliveries occur at home, attended by traditional birth attendants and there is a shortage of weighing scales. Therefore, suitable surrogates for birth weight are needed. A prospective study was conducted to assess the diagnostic performance of four anthropo…
The prevalence of Low Birth Weight (LBW) in Indonesia varied between 2.1-17.2 percent. At the end of Five Years Development Plan V (Repelita V) it was 15.0 percent, and is expected to 10.0 percent by the end of Repelita VI. Low birth weight infant (less than 2500 grm) is an important issue, because of its relationship with the survival and health status of the infant in the future. The prevalen…
Efforts to improve human quality should start early from intra uterine growth which depends on the mothers health status including safe reproduction. Low birth is one of the risk factors that influences infant mortality especially during perinatal periods. The objective of this analysis is to study the factors which influence low birth weight such as socioeconomic characteristic (mothers educat…
The risk of diarrhoea for children underfive years of age is higher than in adults. Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey 1994 (IDHS-1994) data were analysed to know the risk of sociodemographic and enviromental factors on diarrhoea among children under five years of age. The sociodemographic factors which were analysed included area, education and occupation of the parents, age, while the en…
A prospective study was conducted to investing the risk factors of still-birth and neonatal death at Petarukan District, Pemalang, Indonesia. Six hundreds thirteen pregnant women was followed-up by midwives and then the infants were also evaluated up to the end of neonatal period. The incident of still-birth was 9.7 permil and the incident of neonatal death was 29.7 permil. Most of the neonatal…
The etiology of psoriasis is still unknown, however immune mechanism seems to play an important role. Psoriasis is a chronic and recurrent diseases, characterized by erythematous scaly popules with overlying silvery scale. The clinical spectrum of psoriasis are plaque psoriasis, guttate psoriasis, flexural psoriasis, pustular psoriasis, erythrodemic psoriasis and seborrhoic psoriasiasis. Genera…