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Birth Order and Health Status in a British National Sample

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Bernice A. Kaplan ,
C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor  and
Jesper Boldsen
Bernice A. Kaplan
Affiliation:
Wayne State Unversity, Detroit, USA
C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Jesper Boldsen
Affiliation:
University of Odense, Denmark
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Summary

Analysis of British National Child Development Study data corroborates the long held views that first born children tend to get more medical surveillance than those of later birth order, and that there is a direct relationship between achieved family size and social status.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 25 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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