Disparities in maternal outcomes among four ethnic populations

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 492-497

  Shen, Jay J ^a   Tymkow, Catherine ^a   MacMullen, Nancy ^a  

^a GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Asian Pacific Islander; Disparities; Hispanics; Maternal outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMNIONITIS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL WELFARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 24344491078     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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