Trends in racial and ethnic disparities in infant mortality rates in the united states, 1989-2006

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1549-1556

  Rossen, Lauren M ^a   Schoendorf, Kenneth C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904312361     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301272     Document Type: Article

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