Birth outcome, not pregnancy process: Reply to Van Der Veen

Demography

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 519-527

  Frisbie, W Parker ^a   Forbes, Douglas ^b   Hummer, Robert A ^a   Pullum, Starling G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Texas ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032198590     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3004020     Document Type: Article

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