Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 189-197 , July 2006

Obstetric complications during labor and delivery: Assessing ethnic differences in California

  • Sylvia Guendelman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Maternal and Child Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Sylvia Guendelman, Ph.D., Professor, Maternal and Child Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 406 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360; Phone: 510-642-2848; Fax: 510-643-8236.
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  • Dorothy Thornton, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Maternal and Child Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California
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  • Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Perinatal Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research Unit, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
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  • Nap Hosang, MD, MPH, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Hayward, California

Received 5 July 2005 ,Revised 15 March 2006 ,Accepted 24 March 2006.

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 Supported by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Center for Health Research at the University of California, Berkeley

PII: S1049-3867(06)00055-7

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2005.12.004

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 189-197 , July 2006

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