Reproductive and Birth Outcomes in Haiti before and after the 2010 Earthquake

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 59-66

  Harville, Emily W ^a   Do, Mai ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

birth weight; developing country; disaster; pregnancy; unwanted

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADULT; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

EID: 84959518231     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.69     Document Type: Article

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