Perinatal risk factors for neonaticide and infant homicide: Can we identify those at risk?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 57-61

  Craig, Michael ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ALTRUISM; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FAMILY PLANNING; FOLLOW UP; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; ILLEGITIMACY; INFANT; INFANTICIDE; LABOR PAIN; LAW; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 1242270520     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.97.2.57     Document Type: Review

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