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(Syndromic) Surveillance of Birthweight, Gestation, and Infant Mortality
Content Type: Abstract
This study uses data on births in New York City between 2000-2005 to investigate the spatial pattern of birthweight and gestation, two primary risk factors for infant mortality. The analysis uses SatScan to perform normal-distribution cluster… read more… variation. Additionally, spatial patterns of mortality may be driven largely by spatial patterns of demographic characteristics. In these cases, it may be preferable to describe the risk in terms of the …