Ethnic density effects on maternal and infant health in the Millennium Cohort Study

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1476-1483

  Pickett, Kate E ^a   Shaw, Richard J ^a   Atkin, Karl ^a   Kiernan, Kathleen E ^a   Wilkinson, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Areas; Ethnic density; Ethnicity; Infant health; Maternal health; Millennium Cohort Study; UK

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; MATERNAL HEALTH; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BANGLADESH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDIAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PARITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREMATURE LABOR; SALARY; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL WELFARE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 71149105302     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.031     Document Type: Article

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