Risk and protective factors for pregnancy outcomes for urban aboriginal and non-aboriginal mothers and infants: The gudaga cohort

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 569-578

  Comino, Elizabeth ^a   Knight, Jennifer ^a   Webster, Vana ^a   Pulver, Lisa Jackson ^a   Jalaludin, Bin ^b   Harris, Elizabeth ^a   Craig, Pippa ^a   McDermott, Dennis ^c   Henry, Richard ^d   Harris, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Centre for Research Evidence Management and Surveillance   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; Indigenous; Protective factors; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860858026     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-011-0789-6     Document Type: Article

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