Socio-economic differences among low-birthweight infants in Hungary. Results of the Cohort ‘18 –Growing Up in Hungary birth cohort study

As Hungary had the fifth-highest rate of low-birthweight (LBW) in the EU27 in 2020, LBW still remains a public health problem for the country. Our goal is to examine whether LBW in Hungary is determined by the mothers' educational attainment, adjusted for other maternal characteristics (SES, he...

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Published in:PloS one 2023-09, Vol.18 (9), p.e0291117-e0291117
Main Authors: Szabó, Laura, Boros, Julianna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Alcohol use
Babies
Biology and Life Sciences
Birth weight
Birth weight, Low
Body height
Childbirth & labor
Children & youth
Cohort analysis
Data collection
Diabetes
Education
Educational aspects
Educational attainment
Ethnicity
Health aspects
Health risks
Health visiting
Hypertension
Infant mortality
Longitudinal studies
Maternal behavior
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental depression
Meta-analysis
Mothers
Parent educational background
Pediatric research
People and places
Pregnancy
Prenatal care
Prenatal influences
Public health
Quantiles
Regression analysis
Risk
Risk factors
Risk reduction
Smoking
Social aspects
Social Sciences
Women
Womens health
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Summary:As Hungary had the fifth-highest rate of low-birthweight (LBW) in the EU27 in 2020, LBW still remains a public health problem for the country. Our goal is to examine whether LBW in Hungary is determined by the mothers' educational attainment, adjusted for other maternal characteristics (SES, health behaviour and psychological status during pregnancy) among mothers who gave birth in 2018-2019 in Hungary. Source of data is the first and second wave of the Cohort '18 -Growing Up in Hungary longitudinal birth cohort study (n = 8185). It is based on a nationwide representative sample of pregnant women who gave birth between March 2018 and April 2019. All data were self-reported by mothers. We examined the association between maternal educational attainment and the risk of giving birth to an LBW-child (
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0291117