Open AccessTemporal Changes in Socioeconomic Influences on Health: Maternal Education and Preterm Birth
Author(s) -
Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed,
Sandro Galea
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2011.300564
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , medicine , poisson regression , demography , relative risk , environmental health , confidence interval , population , sociology
To consider how the relationships between social determinants and health indicators change over time, we assessed the time-varying influence of maternal education on risk of preterm birth (PTB) between 1989 and 2006.