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## Background: Infant mortality is a major public health problem in the state of michigan and the united states. the primary adverse reproductive outcome underlying infant mortality is low birthweight. visualizing and exploring the spatial patterns of low birthweight and infant mortality rates and standardized incidence and mortality ratios is important for generating mechanistic hypotheses, targeting high-risk neighborhoods for monitoring and implementing maternal and child health intervention and prevention programs and evaluating the need for health care services. this study investigates the spatial patterns of low birthweight and infant mortality in the state of michigan using automated zone matching (azm) methodology and minimum case and population threshold recommendations provided by the national center for health statistics and the us census bureau to calculate stable rates and standardized incidence and mortality ratios at the zip code (n = 896) level. the results from this analysis are validated using satscan. vital statistics birth (n = 370,587) and linked infant death (n = 2,972) records obtained from the michigan department of community health and aggregated for the ye

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Author

Sue C Grady; Helen Enander

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, c2002-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1476-072X)

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367871444

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)