Socioeconomic factors and adolescent pregnancy outcomes: Distinctions between neonatal and post-neonatal deaths?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Markovitz, Barry P ^a,c   Cook, Rebeka ^a   Flick, Louise H ^a   Leet, Terry L ^a,b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAID; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; PARITY; PERINATAL DEATH; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PRENATAL CARE; RACE; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; COHORT STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; MISSOURI; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 24044519739     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-79     Document Type: Article

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