Social class gradients in health during adolescence
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Social class gradients in health during adolescence.
STUDY OBJECTIVE To review existing data on social class gradients in adolescent health and to examine whether such gradients exist in new data concerning US adolescents. DESIGN Review of relevant publications and unpublished data; regression analyses using adolescent self reported health status data to determine whether there are gradients by social class, using three classes categorised by a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.56.5.354