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Peer reviewedClarke, Leslie L.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1994
A model of the impact of structural advantage and disadvantage on infant mortality rates was developed and fitted to county-level data. Advantage and disadvantage had significant direct effects on infant mortality in urban areas but had smaller indirect effects in rural areas, being mediated by rates of teenage childbearing and low birth weight.…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Disadvantaged, Early Parenthood, Infant Mortality
