Maternal age and birth outcomes: Data from New Jersey

Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages

  Reichman, Nancy E ^a,b   Pagnini, Deanna L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN CARE; PREGNANCY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENTS; ADOLESCENTS, FEMALE; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BIOLOGY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLACKS--WOMEN; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXPENDITURES; FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES; HEALTH; HEALTH FACILITIES; HOSPITALS; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; MORTALITY; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PARENTAL AGE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOMES; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; STUDIES; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS; WHITES--WOMEN; YOUTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW JERSEY; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33749294062     PISSN: 00147354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2953415     Document Type: Article

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