The effects of socioeconomic status and indices of physical environment on reduced birth weight and preterm births in Eastern Massachusetts

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zeka, Ariana ^a,b   Melly, Steve J ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAND USE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAFFIC; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; ECONOMICS; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149143113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-60     Document Type: Article

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