Perinatal mortality in non-western migrants in Norway as compared to their countries of birth and to Norwegian women

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Naimy, Zainab ^a   Grytten, Jostein ^a,b   Monkerud, Lars ^c   Eskild, Anne ^a,d  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Maternal health; Migrant; Perinatal death; Perinatal mortality rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NEWBORN; NORWAY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SOMALIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIA, WESTERN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NORWAY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SOMALIA; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872145881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-37     Document Type: Article

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