Commentary: Fetal origins of social situations? Medicalization of social life?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 856-857

  Cheung, Yin Bun ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; EMPLOYMENT; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL LIFE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 4644353761     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh160     Document Type: Note

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