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Title: Health of Infants Born to Teenage Mothers Affected More by Family Background than by Mother's Age
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Witwer, M. |
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Health of Infants Born to Teenage Mothers Affected More by Family Background than by Mother's Age Family Planning Perspectives 25,4 (July-August 1993): 191-192. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2135934 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Alan Guttmacher Institute Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Birthweight; Family Background and Culture; Fertility; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Pregnancy, Adolescent Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A study of 784 mothers who were part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) suggests that teenage pregnancy and the adverse health outcomes associated with it appear to be strongly mediated by family background characteristics, factors that were found to be more directly related to infant health risks than the mother's youth alone. The study is discussed. This short item is part of the journal digest - summarizes study reported in Geronimus & Korenman, Amer. J. of Epidemiology, 1993. |
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Witwer, M. "Health of Infants Born to Teenage Mothers Affected More by Family Background than by Mother's Age." Family Planning Perspectives 25,4 (July-August 1993): 191-192.
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