NeighborhoodContextandInfantBirthweight AmongRecentImmigrantMothers:A MultilevelAnalysis
2009
We compared the influence of the residen-tial environment at the time of delivery withthat of the maternal country of origin onbirthweight and the proportion of low birth-weights among infants born to women whorecently immigrated to Canada and settled inOntario census metropolitan areas from1993to1995. We hypothesized that the maternalcountryoforiginwouldhaveagreatereffectonbirthweight than would the residential envi-ronmentinwhichimmigrantscurrentlyresidedin urban Ontario.
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