Sociodemographic characteristics influencing birth outcome in sweden, 1908-1930. Birth variables in The Population Study of Women in Gothenburg

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 269-278

  Andersson, Susan W ^a   Niklasson, Aimon ^a   Lapidus, Leif ^b   Hallberg, Leif ^a   Bengtsson, Calle ^a   Hulthén, Lena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILDBIRTH; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PARITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0034015422     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.4.269     Document Type: Article

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