Pockets of progress amidst persistent racial disparities in low birthweight rates

Samantha S. Goldfarb; Kelsey Houser; Brittny A. Wells; Joedrecka S. Brown Speights; Les Beitsch; George Rust

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0201658

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Pockets of progress amidst persistent racial disparities in low birthweight rates

Samantha S. Goldfarb ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Samantha.goldfarb@med.fsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6629-8311

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Kelsey Houser,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America
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Brittny A. Wells,

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, College of Health Professions and Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States of America
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Joedrecka S. Brown Speights,

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America
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Les Beitsch,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America, Center for Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America
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George Rust

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America, Center for Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America
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Pockets of progress amidst persistent racial disparities in low birthweight rates

Samantha S. Goldfarb,
Kelsey Houser,
Brittny A. Wells,
Joedrecka S. Brown Speights,
Les Beitsch,
George Rust

Published: July 31, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201658

About the Authors

Samantha S. Goldfarb

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Samantha.goldfarb@med.fsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6629-8311

Kelsey Houser

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

Brittny A. Wells

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, College of Health Professions and Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States of America

Joedrecka S. Brown Speights

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

Les Beitsch

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America, Center for Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

George Rust

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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