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...

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Publicado en:	Demography Vol. 34; pp. 399 - 410
Autor principal:	Sowards, Kathryn A.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. August 1997
Materias:	Birth weight, Low Communicable diseases Mortality Infant mortality History
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