Original reports: Public health birth outcomes among Arab Americans in michigan before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 348-356

  El Sayed, Abdulrahman ^a   Hadley, Craig ^a,b,c   Galea, Sandro ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arab american; Birth outcomes; Disaster; Low birth weight; Mass trauma; Minority; Preterm; September 11, 2001

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; SELF REPORT; TERRORISM; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ADULT; ARAB; BIRTH RATE; ETHNOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ARABS; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MICHIGAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55249092977     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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