Social and Spatial Determinants of Adverse Birth Outcome Inequalities in Socially Advanced Societies

The incidence of adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight and preterm births, has steadily risen in recent years in Canada. Despite the fact that numerous individual and neighbourhood risk factors for low birth weight and preterm births have been identified and various person-oriented interv...

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Main Author: Meng, Gang
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5607