Appendix A: Practice Case Study
Predicting Low Birth Weight
Context
Figure A.1: Data for Good—Analytics Helping Humanity
Low birth weight is a valuable public health indicator of maternal health, nutrition, health-care delivery, and poverty. Neonates with low birth weight have a more than 20 times greater risk of dying than neonates without low birth weight. In addition, low birth weight is associated with long-term neurologic disability, impaired language development, impaired academic achievement, and increased risk of chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Low birth weight is defined by the World Health Organization ...
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