Socio-demographic and maternal determinants of low birth weight: A multivariate approach

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-14

  Nair, Sreekumaran ^a   Rao, R S Phaneendra ^a   Chandrashekar, Shalini ^a   Acharya, Das ^a   Bhat, H Vinod ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Low birthweight; Maternal determinants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; SOCIOECONOMICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033644199     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02802625     Document Type: Article

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