Trends in perinatal and infant health disparities between rural American Indians and Alaska Natives and rural Whites

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 638-646

  Baldwin, Laura Mae ^a   Grossman, David C ^b   Murowchick, Elise ^a   Larson, Eric H ^a   Hollow, Walter B ^b   Sugarman, Jonathan R ^b   Freeman, William L ^b   Hart, L Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FETUS HYPOXIA; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INUITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS (U.S.); PRENATAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149168041     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.119735     Document Type: Article

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