Increasing social variation in birth outcomes in the Czech Republic after 1989

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1343-1347

  Koupilová, Ilona ^a,b   Bobák, Martin ^c   Holčík, Jan ^b   Pikhart, Hynek ^c   Leon, David A ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CZECH REPUBLIC; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREMATURITY;

EID: 0031708853     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.88.9.1343     Document Type: Article

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