The role of mediating factors in the association between social deprivation and low birth weight in Germany

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1731-1744

  Reime, Birgit ^a   Ratner, Pamela A ^a   Tomaselli Reime, Sandra N ^a   Kelly, Ann ^a   Schuecking, Beate A ^b   Wenzlaff, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c Physicians' Chamber of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Germany; Inequalities; Low birth weight; Preterm birth; Social epidemiology

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; PRENATAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT STATURE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 32644449131     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.08.017     Document Type: Article

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