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Social and ethnic inequalities in infant mortality: a perspective from the United kingdom.
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Social inequalities in infant mortality can be clearly demonstrated in the countries of the United Kingdom with a social gradient between different groups, with the highest rates seen in Pakistani and Caribbean infants and the lowest rates in the white and Bangladeshi groups.About:
This article is published in Seminars in Perinatology.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Infant mortality & Ethnic group.read more
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Risk factors for congenital anomaly in a multiethnic birth cohort: an analysis of the Born in Bradford study
Eamonn Sheridan,Eamonn Sheridan,John Wright,Neil Small,Peter Corry,Sam Oddie,Catherine Whibley,Emily S. Petherick,Teena Malik,Nicole Pawson,Patricia McKinney,Roger C Parslow +11 more
TL;DR: The causes of the excess of congenital anomalies in a large multiethnic birth cohort are identified and sensitive advice about the risks is provided to communities at increased risk, and to couples in consanguineous unions, to assist in reproductive decision making.
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Early childhood development and the social determinants of health inequities
TL;DR: The causes of socially produced inequities, their impact upon health and development during the early years and what works to reduce these inequities are investigated, with a specific focus upon Australia.
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Experiencing maternity care: the care received and perceptions of women from different ethnic groups
TL;DR: Women in all minority ethnic groups had a poorer experience of maternity services than White women following publication of a number of national policy documents and local initiatives is a cause for concern.
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Systematic scoping review of proposed explanations for “excess” mortality in Scotland
TL;DR: There is a great deal of relevant literature offering explanations for “excess” mortality, and it would be of interest to explore similarities and differences between upstream influences, health behaviours and linked outcomes in Scotland and in eastern European countries.
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Patterns of child death in England and Wales.
TL;DR: This paper examined the different patterns of mortality at different ages in five broad categories of death: perinatal causes, congenital abnormalities, acquired natural causes, external causes, and unexplained deaths.
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Sick individuals and sick populations
TL;DR: Aetiology confronts two distinct issues: the determinant of individual cases, and the determinants of incidence rate: if exposure to a necessary agent is homogeneous within a population, then case/control and cohort methods will fail to detect it.
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Investing in early human development: timing and economic efficiency.
Orla Doyle,Colm Harmon,James J. Heckman,James J. Heckman,Richard E. Tremblay,Richard E. Tremblay +5 more
TL;DR: The need for early intervention is motivated by providing an overview of the impact of adverse risk factors during the antenatal and early childhood periods on outcomes later in life, and a suite of new European interventions that will inform this optimal timing debate are discussed.
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Methods in Social Epidemiology
J. Michael Oakes,Jay S. Kaufman +1 more
TL;DR: The history of methods of social epidemiology to 1965 (Christopher S. Hamlin, J. Michael Oakes and Jay S. Kaufman) is described in this article, along with a review.
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Major epidemiological changes in sudden infant death syndrome: a 20-year population-based study in the UK
TL;DR: Although the reasons for the rise in deaths when a parent sleeps with their infant on a sofa are still unclear, it is strongly recommend that parents avoid this sleeping environment and to better understand contributory factors and plan preventive measures.
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Enduring Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting by Nurses on Children: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial Among Children at Age 12 Years
Harriet Kitzman,David L. Olds,Robert Cole,Carole Hanks,Elizabeth Anson,Kimberly J. Arcoleo,Dennis W. Luckey,Michael D. Knudtson,Charles Henderson,John Holmberg +9 more
TL;DR: Through age 12, the program reduced children's use of substances and internalizing mental health problems and improved the academic achievement of children born to mothers with low psychological resources.