Birth outcomes in Colorado's undocumented immigrant population

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Reed, Mary M ^a   Westfall, John M ^a   Bublitz, Caroline ^a   Battaglia, Catherine ^b   Fickenscher, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Joffit Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BLEEDING; EDUCATION; FETUS DISTRESS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LABOR COMPLICATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; MEDICAID; MIGRATION; NEWBORN; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; COLORADO; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICAID; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 26844448600     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-100     Document Type: Article

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