Anemia during Pregnancy and Its Prevalence

Sehar Zulkifal, Shumaila Sarwar, Madiha Saddique, Khalida Yaqoob, Arshia Muneer, Aisha Fatima, Ayesha Kabir, Mohammad Asad Mangat, Laiba Mateen, Zeeshan Javed and Maleeha Manzoor

A chapter in Primary Health Care from IntechOpen

Abstract: Anemia is a serious health issue throughout the world affecting both sexes of any age group. This nutritional disease is more common among the pregnant women of developing countries, where it is a major cause of maternal death and negative outcome of pregnancy. Among all anemic types, IDA is most prevalent one and is comprises of about 95% of all anemic cases around the world. In many developing countries it is more common in women of low socio-economic background and with no record of antenatal checkup. There is need for further health educational programs to overcome anemia especially for pregnant females.

Keywords: iron deficiency anemia; pregnancy outcomes; iron supplements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/79058 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ito:pchaps:248621

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99521

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from IntechOpen
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Slobodan Momcilovic ().