The Health of Children Adopted From Romania

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 268, Issue 24, 1992, Pages 3446-3451

  Johnson, Dana E ^a   Miller, Laurie C ^c   Iverson, Sandra ^a   Thomas, William ^b   Franchino, Barbara ^b   Dole, Kathryn ^a   Kiernan, Marybeth T ^c   Georgieff, Michael K ^a   Hostetter, Margaret K ^a  

^a International Adoption Clinic Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^b Boston University Medical Campus   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FOSTER CARE; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INFANT; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOPTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ROMANIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027102415     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1992.03490240054036     Document Type: Article

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