Review Article
Year: 2022 | Month: September | Volume: 12 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 108-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20220914
Consequences of Low Birth Weight among Tribal Populations in India: A Review Analysis
Subhashree Das1, Sahid Afrid Mollick2, Supriya Ray3, Sayak Chakraborty4
1,2,3,4Junior Research Fellow, Anthropological Survey of India Head Office, Kolkata, India
Corresponding Author: Subhashree Das
ABSTRACT
Background: Low Birth Weight (LBW) is considered an inescapable health hazard directly related to public health. It has already been well established by various scientific houses that less than 2.5 kg weight at the time of birth of a newborn is considered LBW. This research paper makes an attempt to depict the prevalence of LBW among tribal infants from all over India, based on published research articles.
Methods: While searching for LBW-related articles by keywords, the researcher benefited from various well-known scientific websites like ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Science direct, PubMed/Medline, WHO (World Health Organization) database, and Google scholar. From 2000 to 2022 years published articles are involved in the present review analysis. Use descriptive statistics to understand the magnitude of the summarized data by using the Past Software 4.03 version.
Results: A total of 17 articles were selected for the review analysis along with an investigation of 28746 infants, the prevalence of LBW in tribal infants of India was achieved at 39.89 % based on the study. The highest prevalence of LBW was in infants in Maharashtra at 87.50 % (95 % CI: 74.754 to 95.272), also the lowest LBW prevalence was found in children in Assam at 16.70 % (95 % CI: 16.100 to 16.820).
Conclusion: LBW prevalence is quite high among tribal infants in India, health policymakers need to work on the intervention of anemia, along with the nutritional status of mothers and children to decrease the prevalence rate of low birth weight.
Key words: Birth Weight, Infant, Low Birth Weight (LBW), Preterm birth, Socio-Economic condition, Tribes.