Income gains and very low-weight birth among low-income black mothers in California

Biodemography and Social Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-156

  Bruckner, Tim A ^a   Rehkopf, David H ^b   Catalano, Ralph A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TAX; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MOTHERS; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAXES;

EID: 84888384582     PISSN: 19485565     EISSN: 19485573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2013.833802     Document Type: Article

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