Causal attributions in Brazilian children's reasoning about health and illness

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 484-490

  Boruchovitch, Evely ^a,c   Mednick, Birgitte R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age factors; Attitude to health ; Causal attributions for health and illness; Concept formation ; Cross cultural comparison ; Health education; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISEASE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0034304542     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102000000500008     Document Type: Article

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