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Explaining Racial Disparities in Infant Health in Brazil

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Public Health, February 2013
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Title
Explaining Racial Disparities in Infant Health in Brazil
Published in
American Journal of Public Health, February 2013
DOI 10.2105/ajph.2012.301021
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Abstract

We sought to quantify how socioeconomic, health care, demographic, and geographic effects explain racial disparities in low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth (PTB) rates in Brazil.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 123 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 19%
Researcher 17 14%
Student > Bachelor 16 13%
Student > Postgraduate 8 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 5%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 40 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 19%
Social Sciences 16 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Other 17 14%
Unknown 48 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 June 2022.
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#3,448,696
of 34,427,821 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Public Health
#4,489
of 14,189 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,313
of 350,056 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Public Health
#59
of 119 outputs
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