Latino parents' perception of their children's health status

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1271-1274

  Arcia, Emily ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Health status; Latino; Mexican; Puerto Rican

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032549462     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)10055-7     Document Type: Article

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