Objective There has been an unprecedented rise in infant mortality associated with
deprivation in recent years in the United Kingdom (UK) and Republic of Ireland. A healthy …

Scientific literature tends to support the idea that the pregnancy and health status of fetuses
and newborns can be affected by maternal, parental, and contextual characteristics. In …

Objectives Low birth weight (LBW) is a major public health concern, especially in developing
countries, and is frequently related to child morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to …

Importance Exposure to early-life adversity alters the structural development of key brain
regions underlying neurodevelopmental impairments. The association between prenatal …

We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records,
hospitalizations, and death records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax …

Background Birth weight (BW) is a strong predictor of neonatal outcomes. The purpose of
this study was to compare BWs between global regions (south Asia, sub-Saharan Africa …

Importance Improving birth outcomes for low-income mothers is a public health priority.
Intensive nurse home visiting has been proposed as an intervention to improve these …

Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this
fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people's lives …

Along with the late 1980s Medicaid expansion for pregnant women and children, states
implemented multiple reforms to reduce administrative burdens and facilitate access to …

We examined income gaps in the period 2011–13 in self-assessments of personal health
and health care across thirty-two middle-and high-income countries. While high-income …