Low-income Canadian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal parent-child interactions

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 545-554

  Letourneau, Nicole L ^a   Hungler, K M ^b   Fisher, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Faculty of Nursing   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Aboriginal people; Canadian low income people; Nursing child assessment teaching scale; Parent child interaction

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALBERTA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INUITS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; POVERTY; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 23844442533     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2005.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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