Selective Classes and Early Health Inequalities in Comprehensive Schools in Finland.
BACKGROUND: The origin of inequalities in health outcomes has been explained by health selection and social causation models. Health selection processes operate particularly at school age. We study, if student allocation to teaching groups with aptitude tests (selective vs general class) differentia...
| Published in: | Journal of School Health Vol. 94; no. 9; pp. 820 - 830 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2024
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