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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Main Authors: Issler Roberto M.S., Giugliani Elsa R.J., Kreutz Guilherme T., Meneses Clarice F., Justo Elisa B., Kreutz Valerie M., Pires Milton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1996-01-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101996000600003