Risk factors for low birthweight in the public-hospitals at Peshawar, NWFP-Pakistan

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Badshah, Sareer ^a   Mason, Linda ^b   McKelvie, Kenneth ^b   Payne, Roger ^c   Lisboa, Paulo J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CONSANGUINITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 45849152128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-197     Document Type: Article

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