Health inequality in adolescence. Does stratification occur by familial social background, family affluence, or personal social position?
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Health inequality in adolescence. Does stratification occur by familial social background, family affluence, or personal social position?
BACKGROUND Two new sets of stratification indicators--family's material affluence and adolescent's personal social position- were compared with traditional indicators of familial social position based on parental occupation and education for their ability to detect health inequality among adolescents. METHODS Survey data were collected in the Adolescent Health and Lifestyle Survey in 2003 fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-110