Reliability of the MacArthur scale of subjective social status - Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Giatti, Luana ^a,b   Camelo, Lidyane Do Valle ^a   Rodrigues, Jôsi Fernandes De Castro ^a   Barreto, Sandhi Maria ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cohort study; ELSA Brasil; Reproducibility; Subjective social status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84871229886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-1096     Document Type: Article

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