Health problems of foreign adopted children in Spain;Problemas de salud de los niíos extranjeros adoptados en Espaía

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 119, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 489-491

  Sonego, Michela ^a   García Pérez, Jesús ^b   Pereira Candel, Joaquín ^c  

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL INFANTIL UNIVERSITARIO NIÑO JESÚS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Child health; International adoption; Malnutrition; Morbidity

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALE; MIGRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOPTION; ANEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; SPAIN; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 0037137088     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-7753(02)73471-4     Document Type: Article

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