Unconditional prenatal income supplement and birth outcomes

Pediatrics

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Brownell, Marni D ^a,b   Chartier, Mariette J ^a,b   Nickel, Nathan C ^a,b   Chateau, Dan ^a,b   Martens, Patricia J ^a,b   Sarkar, Joykrishna ^b   Burland, Elaine ^b   Jutte, Douglas P ^c   Taylor, Carole ^b   Santos, Robert G ^a,b   Katz, Alan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL WORK; UNCONDITIONAL PRENATAL INCOME SUPPLEMENT; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; INCOME; MANITOBA; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SOCIAL CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MANITOBA; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE;

EID: 84971552280     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-2992     Document Type: Article

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