Secular trends in stature in Poland: National and social class-specific

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-258

  Bielicki, Tadeusz ^a   Szklarska, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; INCOME; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

POLAND;

EID: 0033135949     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/030144699282750     Document Type: Article

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