Estimating racial health disparities among adverse birth outcomes as deviations from the population rates

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Thompson, James A ^a   Suter, Melissa A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse birth outcomes; Bayesian; Maternal; Neonatal; Racial health disparity; Sum to zero

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; ADULT; ANCESTRY GROUP; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85081644589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-020-2847-9     Document Type: Article

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