Ethnic Density and Maternal and Infant Health Inequalities: Bangladeshi Immigrant Women in New York City in the 1990s

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 893-903

  McLafferty, Sara ^a   Widener, Michael ^b   Chakrabarti, Ranjana ^c,d   Grady, Sue ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Independent Scholar   (United States)

^d Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladeshi; ethnic density; immigrant; low birth weight; New York City

Indexed keywords

ASIAN IMMIGRANT; ETHNICITY; GIS; IMMIGRATION; MATERNAL HEALTH; NEIGHBORHOOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864572895     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.674901     Document Type: Article

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