BACKGROUND Low birth weight (LBW) is the principal risk factor for neonatal and infant mortality in developing countries. This study examines the effects of unwanted pregnancy, prenatal depression and social support on the risk of low birth weight in rural southwestern Ethiopia. We hypothesized that unwanted pregnancy and prenatal depression increase the risk of low birth weight, while social s...

background unwanted pregnancies remain a main public health problem worldwide. in iran, comparative studies on the risk factors of unwanted pregnancies and their effects on maternal health are rare. conclusions lower education and socioeconomic status, longer marriage duration, being employed, and unwilling of spouse were among the risk factors of unwanted pregnancies. these women are at high r...

BACKGROUND Unintended pregnancy is a persistent and global issue with consequences for the health and well-being of mothers and babies. The aim of this paper is to examine unintended pregnancy over time in the context of substantial human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence and increasing access to anti-retro viral therapy (ART). METHOD Data are from the Rakai Community Cohort Study (RCCS...

Introduction weight in delivery is simplest and current health indication for assessment infant statues in each country.  Purpose of this study is assessment correlation to unplan pregnancy and low birth weight in new infants also some key factors influencing on low birth weight. Materials and Methods in this study 838 pregnant mothers in two group wanted and unwanted performed. This study is d...

Few studies focused on unwanted pregnancy and predictive factors in the late age of reproduction. This study applied feed-forward neural network algorithm with ten-sigmoid function in a hidden and an output layer with 150 neurons to develop a predictive model for type of pregnancy. Data of 1404 women in Khuzestan province of Iran in age 35 or more were collected and eight attributes were select...

This paper assesses the relationship between unintended pregnancy--both unwanted and mistimed and several dimensions of use of prenatal care among women in Ecuador, where the level of unintended pregnancy has risen considerably in recent years. Data were collected from a nationally representative sample of 3988 women interviewed in the 1994 Demographic and Maternal-Child Health Survey. Multivar...

BACKGROUND While unintended pregnancies pose a serious threat to the health and well-being of families globally, characteristics of Tanzanian women who conceive unintentionally are rarely documented. This analysis identifies factors associated with unintended pregnancies-both mistimed and unwanted-in three rural districts of Tanzania. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 2,183 random household...