Very low, low and heavy weight births in hong kong sar: How important is socioeconomic and migrant status?

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 316-331

  Verropoulou, Georgia ^a   Basten, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MIGRANT; NEWBORN; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84897416993     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932013000321     Document Type: Article

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