Maternal Age and Infant Mortality: A Test of the Wilcox-Russell Hypothesis

It has been argued (e.g., the Wilcox-Russell hypothesis) that (low) birth weight is a correlate of adverse birth outcomes but is not on the “causal” pathway to infant mortality. However, the US national policy for reducing infant mortality is to reduce low birth weight. If these theoretical views ar...

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Autores principales: Gage, Timothy B., Fang, Fu, O'Neill, Erin, Stratton, Howard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2638945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19029004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwn308

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2638945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19029004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwn308

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