The spatial relationship between infant mortality and birth defect rates in a U.S. city

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 17-18, 1996, Pages 1907-1919

  Rushton, Gerard ^a   Krishnamurthy, Rajesh ^a   Krishnamurti, Diane ^a   Lolonis, Panos ^b   Song, Hu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Hellenic Mapping Consortium (HEMCO)   (Greece)

^c IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECT; CITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; REVIEW; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029814732     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960930)15:18<1907::aid-sim402>3.0.co;2-r     Document Type: Review

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