Premature birth and the changing composition of newborn infectious disease mortality: reconsidering “exogenous” mortality.
Linked death and birth records from San Antonio, Texas, indicate that infectious infant mortality is more and more a function of premature birth and low birth weight. From 1935 to 1944, 4 percent of infectious infant deaths had related causes entailing prematurity and associated conditions. By 198...
| Publicado en: | Demography Vol. 34; pp. 399 - 410 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
August 1997
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