Effects of socioeconomic status on presentation with acute lower respiratory tract disease in children in Salvador, Northeast Brazil

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 244-248

  Nascimento Carvalho, Cristiana M ^a   Rocha, Heonir ^a   Benguigui, Yehuda ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Children; Epidemiology; Hospitalization; Lower respiratory tract disease; Mortality; Outpatients; Pneumonia; Rhinitis; Second hand smoke; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRAZIL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG AUSCULTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMNOLENCE; TACHYPNEA;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0036205505     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.10078     Document Type: Article

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