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- Title
Underweight Births Are Equally Likely Among Poor Blacks and Whites.
- Authors
Turner, R.
- Abstract
The article offers information regarding underweight births among poor Whites and African Americans. According to a study examining the interconnection between race, poverty status and birth weight, poor African American and white women are equally likely to have a low-birth weight infants. Statistics from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a probability sample of women aged 13-20 in 1977 and 1978 who were interviewed annually since 1979, was employed for the study. There were considerable differences in birth weights of white infants who were poor and those who weren't.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NEWBORN infants; BIRTH weight; WHITE people; AFRICAN Americans; POOR white people; POOR African Americans; POOR people; MALNUTRITION in infants
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1992, Vol 24, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135477