Birth Weight as Destiny? How Parental Investment Reinforces the Birth Weight Educational Gap
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Parental recall of birth weight: how accurate is it?
OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of parental recall of birth weight in a British population and to investigate whether social class and age of the child significantly influence the accuracy of recalled birth weight. METHODS A questionnaire was given to parents whose children were participating in a blood pressure study and the hospital records were retrieved to check the birth weight data. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1948-3260
DOI: 10.5590/jsbhs.2017.11.1.6