Impact of Birth Weight An infant’s birth weight is an essential predictor of the infants current and future health care status (da Silva Santos et al., 2021). Heslehurst et al. (2019) estimate that about 96.5% of low birth weight infants are born in developing countries. The majority of these are of mothers with low socioeconomic status who have poor access to proper nutrition. Low birth […]

Link Between Maternal Nutritional Status and Birth Weight of Infants Several studies have associated maternal nutrition before and during pregnancy to low birth weight babies (Nnam, 2015; Veena et al., 2016; Potdar et al., 2014). A meta-analysis involving 100,000 mothers from different parts of the world concluded that small maternal size increased the risk of delivering infants with low birth weight compared to average maternal […]

Career Package (Due Week 6): Your career package will include the following: The Ad:Find an advertisement for a career based position you would like to haveand could qualify fornow or in the near future. This should be a career oriented position or internship. Cover Letter:This should be tailored to the specific ad you chose. Address the letter to the person who posted the ad and […]

Health Care Organization/Facility Identify the type and name of yournon-profitorganization. Organization/Facility Mission Organization/Facility Vision Provide a substantial overview of your organization. Geographical location Size (e.g., approximate number of employees) Data Examination External environment of your selected organization/facility: City/geographical demographics: Using City-Data online () categorize the following: Population (Total population, male population, and female population). Median age range Median household income Racial demographics Search the internet […]

Racial and Ethnic Identity – Non-Affinity Group Choose one of the remaining three stories from “Section II: Race and Ethnicity” in theCulture and Identitytext. Do not select the story you used in the previous Unit 2 discussion. Each story presents a countertransference section: Summarize the discussion of countertransference for the selected story. Given your particular racial and ethnic identity, what countertransference issues must you be […]

2 Micronutrient Supplementation Nutritional supplementation during pregnancy has multiple benefits on maternal nutritional status (Xiao et al., 2015). Nutritional supplementation with folic acid, zinc, calcium, and protein-energy balance helps prevent adverse foetal outcomes such as low birth weight, neural tube defects, and newborn illnesses such as pulmonary tuberculosis (Veena et al., 2016). Calcium supplementation during the prenatal and antenatal period has been shown to increase […]

Social Change Experience What is your experience with social change? Drawing on your readings on progress and degeneration, and considering D. B. Bury’s and Benedict Morel’s perspectives, describe your personal experience in defining social needs for change either progressively or in degeneration (social worsening) as a professional in your community. Include the following in your discussion: Identify the problem. Explain how the problem was first […]

Search Strategy and Keywords A proper search strategy is needed to retrieve the necessary studies for inclusion in the review and determine their relevance and eligibility. The quality of search strategy used in the review can determine whether or not the researcher will include all the pertinent items (Hackshaw, 2015). The researcher used five electronic databases to search for the researches for inclusion. These included […]

Within organizations, the human resources department is considered an ally by some managers and a barrier by others. The legal requirements of managing HR require you to be the dispenser of policies, procedures, and rules at times and a trusted counselor and guide at other times. There are varying perspectives on the value HR policies bring to an organization. In other words, the policies, procedures, […]

Maternal nutrition during pregnancy All the five studies included in this review supported poor maternal nutrition before and during pregnancy as a risk factor for low birth weight infants. Assefa et al. (2012) conducted an observational cohort study to explore three determinants of newborn birth weight which included the mother’s nutritional status during ANC visit, the maternal mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and the wealth status […]