Movin’ on Up: Socioeconomic Mobility and the Risk of Delivering a Small-for-Gestational Age Infant

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 613-622

  Slaughter Acey, Jaime C ^a   Holzman, Claudia ^b   Calloway, Danuelle ^b   Tian, Yan ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birthweight; Intergenerational; Life course socioeconomic position; Small for gestational age; Social mobility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MICHIGAN; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MICHIGAN; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84958102749     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-015-1860-5     Document Type: Article

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