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Comparison between two race/skin color classifications in relation to health-related outcomes in Brazil

BACKGROUND: This paper aims to compare the classification of race/skin color based on the discrete categories used by the Demographic Census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and a skin color scale with values ranging from 1 (lighter skin) to 10 (darker skin), examining w...

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Autores principales: Travassos, Claudia, Laguardia, Josué, Marques, Priscilla M, Mota, Jurema C, Szwarcwald, Celia L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21867522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-10-35