Low and very low birthweight disadvantage in compulsory education achievement and the transition to upper secondary education in the Finnish birth cohorts of 1987 to 1997.

Background: We compared the educational achievements of very low‐birthweight (VLBW) and low‐birthweight (LBW) adolescents (ages 16 to 19) to those of their normal‐birthweight (NBW) peers in the complete Finnish birth cohorts of 1987 to 1997. We focused on three key phases of the education process: t...

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Published in:Child: Care, Health & Development Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 1 - 16
Main Author: Lindberg, Matti
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2024
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