Changing socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Cumbria

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-162

  Dummer, T J B ^b   Parker, L ^a,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN DEATH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; FATHERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 13244251190     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2003.036111     Document Type: Article

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