Assessment of environmental and socio.economic stress

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-7

  Helm, Dieter ^a   Laußmann, Detlef ^a   Eis, Dieter ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domestic environment; Prenatal environment; SDQ; Socio economic index; Stressors

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951192954     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3554     Document Type: Article

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