Associations between residential greenness and birth outcomes across Texas

Environmental Research

Volumn 152, Issue , 2017, Pages 88-95

  Cusack, Leanne ^a   Larkin, Andrew ^a   Carozza, Sue ^a   Hystad, Perry ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; Greenness; NDVI; Preterm birth; SGA; Texas

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DATE; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MODIS; NDVI; PREGNANCY; RESIDENT POPULATION; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL AGE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RESIDENTIAL GREENNESS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TERM BIRTH; TEXAS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VITAL STATISTICS; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84992051581     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.10.003     Document Type: Article

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