Does child labour affect final height?

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 118-125

  Cortez, Solange Aparecida Estevão ^a   Barbieri, Marco Antonio ^a   Saraiva, Maria da Conceição Pereira ^a   Bettiol, Heloisa ^a   da Silva, Antônio Augusto Moura ^b   Cardoso, Viviane Cunha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Child labour; Cohort study; Height; Human growth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BODY HEIGHT; BRAZIL; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; WORK;

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847677135     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kql155     Document Type: Article

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