Several recent
studies have demonstrated the exposure of social groups to bad health
conditions. That puts individuals at the risk of experiencing adverse outcomes,
which includes mostly transgenerational effects.
Concerning the
mother’s and the newborn’s health, their socioeconomic conditions contribute to
the occurrence Low Birth Weight (LBW) and preterm cases. According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), among all the births in the world,
around 20.6 million (15.5%) of babies are born with LBW.
Most of these
cases are in developing countries (e.g. 27% in Asia against 6.4% in Europe), in
which the rate of child mortality is similar to the maternal mortality, with a
great incidence particularly in Africa and Asia.
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