Determinants of stillbirth mortality in Greece

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 70-78

  Petridou, Eleni ^a,b   Kotsifakis, George ^c   Revinthi, Katharine ^a   Polychronopoulou, Argy ^a   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c General Secretariat of National Statistical Service of Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FETUS; GREECE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STILLBIRTH;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0029974370     PISSN: 03038408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01323085     Document Type: Article

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