Cross-cultural differences in children's concepts of health and illness

INTRODUCTION: In spite of general agreement that cross-cultural research is needed in the health area, most existing investigations of children's development of health and illness-related concepts have involved samples from developed countries. The study examined the development of the concepts...

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Main Authors: Evely Boruchovitch, Birgitte R. Mednick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1997-10-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101997000600002&lng=en&tlng=en