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What Are The Factors That Affect Children

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APPLICATION OF FACTORIAL DESIGN TO DETERMINE FACTORS THAT AFFECT CHILD BIRTH WEIGHT IN YEWA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA

1Ajibode, I.A. BSc. (Mathematics), MSc. (Statistics)
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro,
Ogun State, Nigeria
E-mail: ilesanmiajibode@yahoo.com
2 Fagoyinbo, I.S. BSc. (Mathematics), MSc. (Statistics)
2Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro,
Ogun State, Nigeria
E-mail: ifagoyinbo@yahoo.com

3 Are, S.O. BSc. (Statistics), MSc. (Statistics)
3Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro,
Ogun State, Nigeria
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ABSTRACT
The present study was conducted to determine the factors influencing child birth weight. …show more content…

The number and severity of these problems increases as birth weight decreases. With the improved survival of more infants who were born too soon or too small comes increased numbers of children born with severe brain damage. The occurrence of cerebral palsy and other forms of brain injury is highly correlated with birth weight. Rates of brain injury total approximately 7percent for moderately low birth weight infants (infants weighing between 1.5kg and 2.5kg and increases to 20 percent among the smallest infants) infants weighing between 0.5kg and …show more content…

While it is not clear how the mother’s socioeconomic status translate into the birth of a low birth weight, it is thought that poverty with its associated reduced access to health care, poor nutrition, lower educational levels, inadequate housing, greater physical and psychological stress, and fewer life satisfactions may be responsible for some of the increased risk for low birth weight. In the United States, these programs have focused mainly on improving access to health and medical care for pregnant women and on temporarily reducing the effects of poverty. However, it is not clear if these programs have had an important impact on low birth weight. Certainly, these social programs were developed to ease the effect of poverty on children; in this they succeed. They should not be judged by their uncertain impact on low birth weight.
Chomitz, Cheung and Lieberman (1995) discussed that the role that individual behaviors such as use of other drugs, and diet play in determining fetal growth. While women do make their own choices with regard to individual behaviors and overall lifestyles, they also face systematic, psycho-social, biological and attitudinal barriers to lifestyle changes. In addition,

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