Racial disparities in infant mortality: What has birth weight got to do with it and how large is it?

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gage, Timothy B ^a   Fang, Fu ^a   O'Neill, Erin K ^a   DiRienzo, A Gregory ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; EDUCATION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; RACE DIFFERENCE; STRESS; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FETUS DEATH; HEALTH DISPARITY; NEWBORN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIRTH WEIGHT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650573487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-10-86     Document Type: Article

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