Pregnancy outcomes and risk factors in Mexican Americans: The effect of language use and mother's birthplace

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 229-240

  English, Paul B ^a   Kharrazi, Martin ^b   Guendelman, Sylvia ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; Birth weight; Gestational age; Language; Mexican Americans; Nativity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031216688     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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