The urban-remote divide for Indigenous perinatal outcomes

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 509-512

  Graham, Simon ^a,b   Pulver, Lisa R Jackson ^b   Wang, Yueping Alex ^b   Kelly, Paul M ^a   Laws, Paula J ^b   Grayson, Narelle ^b   Sulivan, Elazabeth A ^b  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BABY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PARITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; STILLBIRTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34250178100     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01024.x     Document Type: Article

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