Premature birth and the changing composition of newborn infectious disease mortality: Reconsidering "exogenous" mortality

Demography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 399-409

  Sowards, Kathryn A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY TRENDS; POPULATION FERTILITY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS;

USA, TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO;

EID: 0031200717     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3038292     Document Type: Article

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