Smoking ban and small-for-gestational age births in Ireland

Smoking ban and small-for-gestational age births in Ireland

Ireland introduced a comprehensive workplace smoke-free legislation in March, 2004. Smoking-related adverse birth outcomes have both health care and societal cost implications. The main aim of this study was to determine the impact of the Irish smoke-free legislation on small-for-gestationa- age (SG...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2013-03, Vol.8 (3), p.e57441-e57441
Hauptverfasser: Kabir, Zubair, Daly, Sean, Clarke, Vanessa, Keogan, Sheila, Clancy, Luke
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Autocorrelation
Biology
Birth
Birth weight
Computer simulation
Control charts
CUSUM charts
Data processing
Female
Gestational age
Health care
Health risk assessment
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Small for Gestational Age
Ireland - epidemiology
Legislation
Medicine
Models, Biological
Occupational health
Parturition
Pregnancy
Premature birth
Retrospective Studies
Small-for-gestational age
Smoke
Smoke-Free Policy
Smoking
Smoking - adverse effects
Smoking - epidemiology
Statistical analysis
Tobacco smoke
Womens health
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Zusammenfassung:Ireland introduced a comprehensive workplace smoke-free legislation in March, 2004. Smoking-related adverse birth outcomes have both health care and societal cost implications. The main aim of this study was to determine the impact of the Irish smoke-free legislation on small-for-gestationa- age (SGA) births. We developed a population-based birthweight (BW) percentile curve based on a recent study to compute SGA (BW
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0057441