Quality disparities in child care for at-risk children: Comparing head start and non-head start settings

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 180-188

  Hillemeier, Marianne M ^a   Morgan, Paul L ^a   Farkas, George ^b   Maczuga, Steven A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care; Head Start program; Low birthweight; Low income population; Poverty; Preschool child

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD CARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873410696     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-012-0961-7     Document Type: Article

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