Increasingly, maternal and child health researchers are employing the statistical approach of multilevel modeling analysis to simultaneously examine the relationship between contextual and individual determinants and maternal and child health outcomes. This review addresses the following questions: (1) What categories of neighborhood characteristics have been addressed? (2) How were those neighborhood characteristics operationalized?
Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. jrajarat@jhsph.edu
