## Abstract To investigate the role of ethnicity, birth weight, and maternal age in infant mortality, separately in neonatal and postneonatal phases, this study used linked birth and infant death certificates for a 10βyear period, 1979β1988, in the State of Hawaii. Logβlinear analysis was applied t
Mediators of ethnic-associated differences in infant birth weight
β Scribed by Ruth E. Zambrana; Christine Dunkel-Schetter; Nancy L. Collins; Susan C. Scrimshaw
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 784 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1099-3460
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