title: Epidemiological characteristics of new borns in a rural community.
abstract: All births (1211) were recorded in a rural area for 1985 by monthly domiciliary visits and the sociological characteristics were collected from mothers within a month. The analysis of 1201 births is presented: 52.7% were male births, 95.7% were delivered in village itself, 80.4% were delivered by trained dais, 99.5% were live born, 12.9% were born before 37 weeks of gestation, 61.5% were put to breast feed within 6 hours, 35% were of gravida 4 and above, 68.9% did not receive any antenatal care, 67.1% had not received any tetanus toxoid, 70.8% did not receive any folifer tablet, 0.8% had abortion and another 0.8% had still birth in preceding outcome, 1.58% had lost a live born dead in preceding out come, 89.6% stopped breast feeding at conception, 31.7% had birth interval less than 2 years, but 2.2% had less than one year, 2/3rd were born in second half of the year, 17.8% had taken extra food during pregnancy, 21.2% reduced the work after becoming pregnant, 9.5% were born to mothers of less than 20 years age, 98.5% of mothers were housewives and 95.9% mothers were illiterate, 33.5% were born in nuclear family, 22.3% were living in 'Kacha' house, 34.8% had no electricity connection, 37.0% were born to land less, 42.2% had no radio in the house, 7.1% had no conveyance, 52.0% families had piped water supply. These findings have been discussed here.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Reddaiah
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kapoor
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008297:Male; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors