Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes: A Life-Course Perspective
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- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Maternal and Child Health Journal
- Vol. 7 (1) , 13-30
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022537516969
Abstract
Background: In the United States, Black infants have significantly worse birth outcomes than do White infants. The cause of these persisting racial disparities remains unexplained. Most extant...Keywords
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