Age of diagnosis for autism: Individual and community factors across 10 birth cohorts

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 503-510

  Fountain, Christine ^a   King, Marissa D ^a   Bearman, Peter S ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENDER DISPARITY; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SYMPTOM;

AGE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MALE; ONSET AGE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79956217853     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.104588     Document Type: Article

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