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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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| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |