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Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes [PDF]

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S.
Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach   +2 more
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant

Apollo Medicine, 2007
Sushma M. Kaul
doaj   +1 more source

Emicizumab prophylaxis in a preterm infant with severe hemophilia A: a case report on the feasibility of early use

Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Background: Emicizumab provides effective prophylaxis for hemophilia A (HA), but evidence for preterm and very low-birth-weight infants remains limited. Key Clinical Question: Can emicizumab be safely initiated shortly after birth in a preterm, low-birth-
Eman Hassan, Charles Percy, Amna Ahmed, Gillian Lowe, Will Lester, Neil V. Morgan, Jayashree Motwani   +6 more
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Association between Bacterial Vaginosis and Preterm Delivery of a Low-Birth-Weight Infant

, 1995
S. Hillier, R. Nugent, D. Eschenbach, M. Krohn, R. S. Gibbs, David H. Martin, M. Cotch, R. Edelman, J. Pastorek, A. Rao, D. McNellis, J. Regan, J. Carey, M. Klebanoff   +13 more
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Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development [PDF]

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. In order to deal with the endogeneity of birth weight we use an estimator based on the eliminant method ...
Del Bono, Emilia, Ermisch, John
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Birth Outcome Measures and Infant Mortality

, 2010
Birth outcome measures, Birth weight, Low birth weight (LBW), Gestational age, Infant mortality,
Sai Ma, Brian Karl Finch, Brian Finch
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correlation of maternal anemia during pregnancy and low birth weight infant at Chonburi Hospital

Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2009
Objective To examine the correlation between maternal anemia and low birth weight infant and other perinatal outcomes. Material and Method A retrospective 5,526 pregnant women was studied from Janury 1, 2004 to December 31, 2007 at Department of ...
Sunaree Pitchaiprasert, Teera Siwadune
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An assessment of the data quality for live births and infant deaths for the 1998-birth cohort, city of São Paulo, using information from SINASC and SIM [PDF]

In this article we use data from the 1998 birth-cohort from the City of São Paulo for live births and data on deaths from the same birth cohort that took place before the first year of life.
Carla Jorge Machado
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