Access to Maternity Care and Low Birth Weight among Women in Rural and Urban U.S. Counties with Higher Rates of Underweight Births.
This article explores county-level low birth weight (LBW) and maternity care access in U.S. counties with at least 20 LBW births from 2013 to 2019 (the study period), examining differences by race and geographic classification. Data were accessed through March of Dimes, who collected from the Nation...
| Publicado en: | Health & Social Work Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 215 - 223 |
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