Neighborhood Violent Crime and Perceived Stress in Pregnancy

Stress has been shown to adversely affect pregnancy outcomes. Neighborhood crime rates may serve as one publicly available social determinant of health for pregnancy studies that use registry or electronic health record datasets in which individual-level stress data are not available. We sought to d...

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Main Authors: Megan M. Shannon, Jane E. Clougherty, Clare McCarthy, Michal A. Elovitz, Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, Steven J. Melly, Heather H. Burris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/15/5585