Poverty levels and children's health status: study of risk factors in an urban population of low socioeconomic level
To test the hypothesis that the low socioeconomic population living is shanty towns in Porto Alegre presents different levels of poverty which are reflected on its health status, a cross-sectional study was designed involving 477 families living in Vila Grande Cruzeiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil. The pov...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
1996-01-01
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Series: | Revista de Saúde Pública |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101996000600003 |