Variation in Birth Outcomes by Mother’s Country of Birth Among Non-Hispanic Black Women in the United States

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2371-2381

  Elo, Irma T ^a   Vang, Zoua ^b   Culhane, Jennifer F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black; Nativity; Preterm; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BIRTH; BLACK PERSON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIGRANT; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MOTHERS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84912012437     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-014-1477-0     Document Type: Article

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