Determinants of newborn birth size in Somaliland: an ordinal logistic regression analysis
Abdirahman Omar Ibrahim, Bashaar Ali Daud, Waleed Salahudiin Ahmed, Suhaib Muse Jama, Nagaad Abdinasir Habane, Rahma Yasin Ismail, Umulkhayr Mohamed Abadir, Amaani Abdilahi Sahal, Mohamed Said Hassan · 2025
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Abdirahman Omar Ibrahim and a large team of co-authors published this 2025 study on what shapes the size of a newborn in Somaliland. Birth size foreshadows the survival odds of a baby, and local evidence for targeting help was thin. The team mined the 2020 Somali Health and Demographic Survey, 2,137 mother-infant pairs, with an ordinal regression model.
Mothers reported 9 percent of babies small, 75 percent average, and 16 percent large. Three forces predicted bigger babies. Household wealth led, with the richest families at 1.45 times the adjusted odds of the poorest. Birth order mattered too, second children ahead of firstborns. And mothers aged 30 to 34 doubled the odds of teenagers. The authors aim the findings at maternal programs that reach poor and very young mothers first.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Abdirahman Omar Ibrahim, Bashaar Ali Daud, Waleed Salahudiin Ahmed, Suhaib Muse Jama, Nagaad Abdinasir Habane, Rahma Yasin Ismail, Umulkhayr Mohamed Abadir, Amaani Abdilahi Sahal, Mohamed Said Hassan |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |