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Trude Bennett is assistant professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Paula Braveman is assistant professor and Susan Egerter is epidemiologist/analyst, both in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco; and John L. Kiely is chief of the Infant and Child Health Studies Branch of the Office of Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This work was originally begun in collaboration with Joel C. Kleinman; the authors regret that his untimely death deprived them of the benefit of his continued involvement.