Original Contribution Neighborhood Deprivation and Preterm Birth among Non-Hispanic Black and White Women in Eight Geographic Areas in the United States
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1 Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2 Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 3 Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 4 Department of Behavioral and Community Health Services, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. 6 Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 7 Department of Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 8 Human Studies Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. 9 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 10 Center for Health and Community, Division of Prevention Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
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