Epidemiology of preterm birth

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 387-391

  Purisch, Stephanie E ^a   Gyamfi Bannerman, Cynthia ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; global health; prematurity; preterm birth; racial disparity

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85028516273     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2017.07.009     Document Type: Review

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