Poverty and Low Birth Weights :: Essays on Poverty

Abstract     There exist some evidence that scantness can result in menial nascence weight in newinnate(p) infants. On Prince Edward Island, low gestate weights are currently the last(a) as compared to the national average according to Statistics Canada. However, the link that exist among poverty and low birth weights leaves unanswered questions as to what can be done to reduce these low birth weights in newborn infants.The deed of Poverty on Low Birth Weight in Newborns     Receiving nifty antepartum care is extremely important for an expecting mother. The prenatal period has a great impact on the newborns health. Low birth weight is a problem among a certain population of newborns. It is of the essence(p) to understand the conditions in poverty and its affects on birth weights in infants. several(prenominal) communities characteristics associated with poverty are negatively associated with low birth weight (Roberts, 1997)  & nbsp  In 2000, the PEI Reproductive Care Program, reported that Prince Edward Island had the lowest percentage of low birth weight infant at 4.3% compared to the National average of 5.6%, however there is much taught about the link of low birth weight and poverty.       agree to the 2000 write up, mothers living in West Prince were the youngest with the highest percentage of birth rates (11.3%), these organism women under 20 years of age. This can also be a contributor since young women may not have finished enlighten or post secondary educational therefore resulting in jobs with slight income. This weighs on their health care and ability to have the best prenatal care available.     Diet factors can also play a major(ip) factor in low birth weights. In a study done comparing Latina women both in the United States and Mexico, showed that Latino women born in Mexico consumed diets richer in calcium, folate, protein, vitamin A and as corbic acid than Latino women born in the United States who instead ate diets consisting more of high fat foods, sugars and cereals, associated with low birth weights (Pearl, 2001). Poverty decreases the chances of expecting mothers to be able to buy all the priggish foods available in order to eat a properly balance diet high in all the nutrients needed for her and her baby.This paper describes the relative incidence of low birth weight in newborns in relation to the level of poverty among women on Prince Edward Island.MethodApparatus and/or Materials     The source of the selective information was found using Statistics Canada database CANSIM. Incidence of low birth weight from 1991 to 2001 on Prince Edward Island, v5939746 Table 102-4005.