Infant care practices related to cot death in Turkish and Moroccan families in the Netherlands

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 784-788

  Van Sleuwen, B E ^a   L'Hoir, M P ^a   Engelberts, A C ^b   Westers, P ^c   Schulpen, T W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SMOKING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BEDDING AND LINENS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PRONE POSITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; TURKEY;

EID: 0041760912     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.88.9.784     Document Type: Article

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