Community socioeconomic disadvantage and the survival of infants with congenital heart defects

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 2014, Pages e150-e157

  Kucik, James E ^a   Nembhard, Wendy N ^b   Donohue, Pamela ^c   Devine, Owen ^a   Wang, Ying ^d   Minkovitz, Cynthia S ^e   Burke, Thomas ^f  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e Family and Reproductive Health   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; POVERTY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907812777     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302099     Document Type: Article

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