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Development and Exploitation of Empirical Birth Weight Standards

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. Roy Carr-Hill

    1. Centre for Health Economics Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of York, UK

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  2. Colin Pritchard

    1. MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Institute of Medical Sociology, Aberdeen, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction and Birthweight Trends Since 1950

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 3-7

    3. Birthweight trends since 1950

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 8-26

  3. Theoretical Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Factors affecting birthweight

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 29-37

    3. Birthweight surveys

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 38-43

    4. The theory, the model, an analytic strategy

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 44-58

  4. The derivation of birthweight standards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Material and Statistical Methods

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 61-78

    3. Deriving empirical birthweight standards—1: preliminaries and the functional relation of birthweight to gestation

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 79-99

    4. Deriving Empirical Birthweight Standards—2: Standardising for Normal and Intermediate Factors

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 100-119

  5. The Use of Birthweight Standards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Clinical standards for birthweight

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 123-132

    3. The Relationship between Social Class and Standardised Birthweight Scores

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 133-145

    4. Pre-Eclampsia, smoking and standardised birthweight

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 146-158

  6. Summary and Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Summary and implications for theory and practice

      • Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard
      Pages 161-180

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 181-195
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Health Economics Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of York, UK

    Roy Carr-Hill

  • MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Institute of Medical Sociology, Aberdeen, UK

    Colin Pritchard

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Development and Exploitation of Empirical Birth Weight Standards

  • Authors: Roy Carr-Hill, Colin Pritchard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07434-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-07434-1Published: 10 January 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 195

  • Topics: Human Physiology

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