Infant mortality in Pelotas, Brazil: A comparison of risk factors in two birth cohorts

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 439-446

  Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista ^a,b   Hallal, Pedro Curi ^a   Dos Santos, Iná Silva ^a   Victora, Cesar Gomes ^a   Barros, Fernando Celso ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b Latin American Center for Perinatology and Human Development ^*  (Brazil)

^c Latin American Center of Perinatology and Human Development PAHO/WHO   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Developing countries; Inequalities; Infant mortality; Prospective studies

Indexed keywords

INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL EFFECT; MONITORING; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAZIL; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNITY WARD; PARITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POVERTY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL GROWTH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; PELOTAS; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SOUTH AMERICA;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAZIL; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PARITY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33645308300     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: 16805348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1020-49892005001000007     Document Type: Article

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