Pathways of neighbourhood-level socio-economic determinants of adverse birth outcomes
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Pathways of neighbourhood-level socio-economic determinants of adverse birth outcomes
BACKGROUND Although socio-economic factors have been identified as one of the most important groups of neighbourhood-level risks affecting birth outcomes, uncertainties still exist concerning the pathways through which they are transferred to individual risk factors. This poses a challenge for setting priorities and developing appropriate community-oriented public health interventions and plann...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072x-12-32