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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 …