Socioeconomic status and risk of congenital malformations;Status socioeconomico e occorrenza di malformazioni congcnite

Epidemiologia e Prevenzione

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-26

  Rosano, Aldo ^a,b   Del Bufalo, Elisabetta ^c   Burgio, Alessandra ^c  

^a Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale   (Italy)

^b Agenzia di Sanita Pubblica   (Italy)

^c ISTAT National Institute of Statistics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congenital malformations; Risk factors; Social inequalities; Socioeconomic level

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 50949131246     PISSN: 11209763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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