Green streets: Urban green and birth outcomes

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Abelt, Kathryn ^a   McLafferty, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; Blue space; Green space; Greenness; Preterm birth; Small for gestational age; Street trees; Term birthweight; Term low birthweight

Indexed keywords

AGE; GREENSPACE; NDVI; NEIGHBORHOOD; PREGNANCY; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLUE SPACE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GREEN SPACE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEW YORK; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; VEGETATION; DEMOGRAPHY; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; RECREATIONAL PARK; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREE; YOUNG ADULT;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

WATER;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; NEW YORK CITY; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREES; WATER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85024112338     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph14070771     Document Type: Article

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