Which is the best deprivation predictor of foetal and infant mortality rates?

Public Health

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-24

  Joyce, R ^a   Webb, R ^b   Peacock, J L ^a   Stirland, H ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b S Thames West Perinatal Audit Team   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deprivation; England; Infant mortality; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

ARTICLE; FETUS; FETUS MORTALITY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; POVERTY; STILLBIRTH; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034060871     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ph.1900597     Document Type: Article

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