The Built Environment and Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review

MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 14-20

  Nowak, Alexandra L ^a   Giurgescu, Carmen ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Low birthweight; Preterm birth; Property disorder

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOUSING; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STANDARDS;

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84991508549     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: 15390683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMC.0000000000000299     Document Type: Article

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