title: Vive la difference! The international symposium, "Society and Individual Predisposition for Successful Pregnancy Outcome".
abstract: A gathering of clinician and epidemiologist researchers from three continents assembled in Paris on September 24, 1998, to contribute to a symposium honoring Professor Emile Papiernik, Chef de Service de Gynecologie et Obstetrique, Maternite Port Royal. The theme was society and individual predisposition for successful pregnancy outcome, and each presenter was asked to respond to a provocative question posed by Dr. Louis Keith, who presided over the symposium. This commentary was prepared shortly after the symposium. It reflects an overview of the state of knowledge presented that day by the participating scientists with regard to preterm delivery.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294-0022, USA. donna.petersen@uab.edu
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Petersen
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012927:Social Control, Informal