Impact of children born with low birth weight on stunting and wasting in Sindh province of Pakistan: a propensity score matching approach.

ABSTRACT: Low Birth Weight (LBW) is considered as a major public health issue and leading cause of neonatal death. Almost one in four newborns are reported as underweight in Pakistan. Children born with low birth weight are highly vulnerable to develop diseases and death and/or remain undernourished (i.e., stunted and wasted). This study determines the LBW newborns are more prone to develop stunting and wasting in province of Sindh, Pakistan. Moreover, regression-based estimation of the impact of LBW on the child health outcomes of under five years of age, may be prone to selection bias because of the nature of non-experimental data set, thus, propensity score matching methods are used in this study. Data for this study was used from Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS-2014). MICS is a two-stag

SUBMITTER: Abbas F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8497567 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature