Associations between the quality of the residential built environment and pregnancy outcomes among women in North Carolina

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 471-477

  Miranda, Marie Lynn ^a   Messer, Lynne C ^b,c   Kroeger, Gretchen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; Built environment; Health disparities

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; HOUSING DAMAGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLLUTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPERTY DISORDER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENTIAL BUILT ENVIRONMENT QUALITY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857743021     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103578     Document Type: Article

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