Low Birth Weight Infants
 

This guide is an introductory list to help locate research materials at the Rowland Medical Library.  Low birth weight is defined as weighing 2,500 g or less at birth, regardless of gestational age. Some common causes of low birth weight are prematurity and intrauterine growth retardation.  Since birth weight is a major predictor of infant morbidity and mortality, the incidence has been carefully monitored.   In the United States the rate has continued to climb rising from 6.6% to 7.5% between 1981 and 1997.(Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 2000). The rate of low birth weight deliveries to black mothers is twice that of white mothers.  Reasons for the continued rate increase and the racial disparity are unclear and are the focus of research so preventive programs can be implemented.

Guides / Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries / Selected textbooks / More books / Selected journals / More journals / Selected indexes and abstracts / Selected journal articles / More reference sources / Specialized sources / Selected electronic sources

Guides 

Nelson textbook of pediatrics.  16th ed. p.451-2,477,479-85.
        WS 100 N4 2000

Valman, H.B.  ABC of the first year.  5th ed. p.10-2.
        WS 420 V145 2002

Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries

State rankings, 2002: a statistical view of the 50 United States. 13th ed. p.360-1.
        REF HA 217 S828 2002

Ulijaszek, Stanley J., et al (eds.). Cambridge encyclopedia of human growth and development.
       WS 13 C152 1998

Rothman, Barbara Katz (ed.). Encyclopedia of childbearing: critical perspectives.
        REF WQ 13 E529 1993

Selected textbooks

Klaus, Marshall H. and Avroy A. Fanaroff.  Care of the high-risk neonate. 5th ed.
        WS 420 K63 2001

Levitt, Gill, et al (eds.). Practical perinatal care: the baby under 1000 grams.
        WS 410 P712 1999

Gross, Ruth T., et al (eds.).  Helping low birth weight, premature babies: the infant health and development program.
        WS 420 H446 1997

Fanaroff, Avroy A. and Richard J. Martin.  Neonatal-perinatal medicine: diseases of the fetus and infant.  7th ed.
        WS 420 N3 2002

More books 

Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog

Suggested subject headings: Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
Infant, Premature
Infant, Newborn
Infant Care
Intensive Care, Neonatal
Perinatal Care
Pediatrics

Selected journals 

More journals

Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog

Suggested subject headings: Perinatology - Periodicals
Infant, Newborn  - Periodicals
Perinatal Care - Periodicals
Pediatrics - Periodicals
Obstetrics - Periodicals
Neonatology - Periodicals
Prenatal Care - Periodicals

Selected indexes and abstracts

Index Medicus & MEDLINE  On-Campus   / Off-Campus

Suggested subject headings: Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
Infant, Small for Gestational Age
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature

Academic Search Elite  On-Campus  Off-Campus

Search using keywords: Low Birth Weight Infant
Low Birth Weight Infants
Premature Newborn Infant
Low Birthweights
LBW
Low Birthweight

CINAHL  On-Campus   / Off-Campus

Suggested Subject headings: Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
Infant, Small for Gestational Age
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature
Infant, High Risk

Selected journal articles

Newborn-Cook CV, et al.  Where and to what extent is prevention of low birth weight possible?  Western Journal of Nursing Research. 2002 Dec; 24(8):887-904.

Infant mortality and low birth weight among black and white infants--United States, 1980-2000. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2002 Jul 12; 51(27):589-92.

Jaffee KD, et al.  An ecological analysis of racial differences in low birthweight: implications for maternal and child health social work. Health and Social Work.   2003 Feb; 28(1):9-22.

Melnyk BM, et al. Effectiveness of informational/behavioral interventions with parents of low birth weight (LBW) premature infants: an evidence base to guide clinical practice.  Pediatric Nursing. 2002 Sep-Oct; 28(5):511-6.

Spencer N, et al.  Social influences on birth weight. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2002 May; 56(5):326-7.

Rauh VA. The contribution of maternal age to racial disparities in birthweight: a multilevel perspective. American Journal of Public Health. 2001 Nov; 91(11):1815-24.

More reference sources

Kenner, Carole and Judy Wright Lott (eds.). Comprehensive neonatal nursing: a physiologic perspective. 3rd ed. p.695,865-7,873-4.
        WY 159 C666 2003

Groh-Wargo, Sharon, et al (eds.).  Nutritional care for high-risk newborns.  Rev 3rd  ed.
       WS 420 N877 2000

Goldson, Edward (ed.).  Nurturing the premature infant: developmental interventions in the neonatal intensive care nursery. p. 86-97.
       WS 410 N877 1999

Specialized sources

Bender, Kaye. Relationship of selected components of publicly funded low birth weight prevention models to the reduction in low birth weight births among Mississippi childbearing women.
        ARCHIVES THESIS 2001 B463

Lantos, John D.  The Lazarus case: life-and-death issues in neonatal intensive care.
        WS 33 .AA1 L26 2001

Department of Pediatrics.  601-984-2425.
        University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
        Phil Rhodes.http://www.library.umc.edu/TopicTracks/prhodes@ped.umsmed.edu

Selected electronic sources

Too Small, Too Soon: Low Birth Weight and Preterm Infants
http://www.fasp.org/PDFfiles/Low%20Birth%20Weight.pdf

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse. Low Birth Weight
http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/summary/summary.aspx?view_id=l&doc_id=135

Discovery Health.Low Birth Weight
http://discovery.com/minisites/pregnancy/2nd_trimester/ency/001500.html

Cost Savings of Preventing Low Weight Births
http://trfn.clpgh.org/hspgh/cost%20savings%20/low%20birth.html

Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2784.htm

NCQA Health Choices. Prenatal and Postpartum Care.
http://www.healthchoices.org/StayingHealthy/2.asp

Author:  Ardis Haaland
Copyright 2003 Reference Department, Rowland Medical Library,
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson