Cohort profile: The 1993 pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 704-709

  Victora, Cesar G ^a,d   Hallal, Pedro C ^a   Araújo, Cora L P ^a   Menezes, Ana M B ^a   Wells, Jonathan C K ^b   Barros, Fernando C ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PAHO/WHO Latin American Centre for Perinatology   (Uruguay)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DEVELOPING WORLD; INFANT MORTALITY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; BRONCHIOLITIS; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL WELFARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE;

BRAZIL; PELOTAS; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 48349131378     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym177     Document Type: Article

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