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Depression
Maternal depression adversely affects infant birth weight
January 6th, 2005
Maternal depression adversely affects infant birth weight, study results show. According to recent research published in the Southern Economic Journal, "Depression is most prevalent among women of childbearing age and among low-income women, and the medical literature shows it to have adverse effects on infant health. Yet maternal depression has been overlooked in economic studies of infant health production." In their study, K.S. Conway and L.D. Kennedy at the University of New Hampshire "[incorporated] maternal depressive symptoms into a standard infant health production model and [estimated] both structural and reduced-form birth weight...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-06)
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