Social class differences in health until the age of seven years among the Finnish 1987 birth cohort.
Studies on social class differences in childhood health are controversial partly because of different data collection methods, limited sample sizes and the use of limited numbers of health indicators. The increasing collection of health register data enables the use of such data in social class stud...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 46; no. 12; pp. 1543 - 1553 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Jun98
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