Ethnic density effects on birth outcomes and maternal smoking during pregnancy in the US linked birth and infant death data set

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 707-713

  Shaw, Richard J ^b   Pickett, Kate E ^b   Wilkinson, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; NEWBORN; PARITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PARITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949445720     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.167114     Document Type: Article

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