Should we intervene to improve childhood circumstances?

A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Boyce, W Thomas ^a   Keating, Daniel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood interventions; Children; Life course; Socioeconomic status; World community

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923017994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198578154.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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