Postneonatal mortality among Alaska native infants-Alaska, 1989-2009

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Young, Margaret B ^a   Gessner, Bradford D ^a  

^a Alaska Division of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; BIRTH WEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84856489829     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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