The organisation of a national survey for evaluating child psychomotor development in Argentina

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 359-373

  Lejarraga, Horacio ^a,d   Krupitzky, Sara ^a   Gimenez, Eduardo ^a   Diament, Nora ^a   Kelmansky, Diana ^b   Tibaldi, Fabian ^b   Cameron, Noel ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE CÁLCULO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIATRICIAN; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; TRAINING;

EID: 0031401087     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1997.tb00014.x     Document Type: Article

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