MEDICAl AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF PREMATURITY: MODERN PROBLEMS

I. D. Shkrobanets, Yu. M. Nechytaylo, S. Ye. Fokina

Keywords: infants, prematurity, neonatal mortality, perinatal neurological disorders

The paper deals with the correlation between low birth weight and neonatal mortality, morbidity and neurologic abnormalities. Index of relative risk of morbidity increases greatly in premature neonates.