Ecological study of socio-economic indicators and prevalence of asthma in schoolchildren in urban Brazil

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Da Cunha, Sérgio Souza ^a   Pujades Rodriguez, Mar ^b   Barreto, Mauricio Lima ^a   Genser, Bernd ^a   Rodrigues, Laura C ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b EPICENTRE   (France)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIRTH; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DATA BASE; ECOLOGY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT MORTALITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; SANITATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; VISION TEST; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; BRAZIL; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34648837379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-205     Document Type: Article

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