Racial residential segregation and low birth weight in Michigan's metropolitan areas

M.P. Debbink and M.D.M. Bader

American Journal of Public Health, 2011, vol. 101, issue 9, 1714-1720

Abstract: Objectives: We examined the influence of racial residential segregation, independent of neighborhood economic factors, on the overall and specific etiological risks of low birth weight. Methods: We geocoded all singleton births in Michigan metropolitan areas during 2000 to census tracts. We used hierarchical generalized linear models to investigate the association between low birth weight (

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300152

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