TY - BOOK ED - Expert committee on maternal and child health ED - World health organization TI - Public health aspects of low birth weight: Third report of the expert committee on maternal and child health T2 - World health organization technical report series U1 - 100 SD:610.621 PY - 1961/// CY - Geneva PB - Palais des nations KW - Medical Science N1 - Introduction -- Prerequisites for successful child-bearing -- Prematurity and low birth weight -- Meeting the problem of low birth weight -- The research programme N2 - WHO expert group on prematurity made a series of recommendations concerning programme planning in relation to the premature infant. It endorsed the international definition of prematurity (a birth weight of 2500 g or less) adopted by the first world health assembly in 1948 ER -