Parental race/ethnicity and adverse birth outcomes in New York City: 2000-2010

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1491-1497

  Borrell, Luisa N ^a   Rodriguez Alvarez, Elena ^b   Savitz, David A ^c   Baquero, Maria C ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FATHER; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MOTHER; NEW YORK; PARENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATHERS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MOTHERS; NEW YORK CITY; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84978257347     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303242     Document Type: Article

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