Bajo peso al nacer: una mirada desde la influencia de factores sociales

a descriptive study was conducted to show how the social and economic factors of a country may substantially affect maternal and fetal malnutrition resulting in low birthweight newborns, all of which is closely related to a higher incidence of infant mortality. low birthweighted neonates is a worldwide problem at present, particularly in the third world countries located in asia, africa, latin america and the caribbean where hunger and poverty derived from neoliberal globalization prevail, and also the sinister idea of converting food into fuels is another problem to be faced. it was proved that economic factors, social and political systems ruling in each country are decisive to avoid low birthweight children. the millennium development goals laid out by the different un organizations were pointed out.