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Does the timing of parental migration matter for child growth? A life course study on left-behind children in rural China

BACKGROUND: China’s unprecedented internal migration has left 61 million rural children living apart from parents. This study investigates how being left behind is associated with children’s growth, by examining children’s height and weight trajectories by age, testing the accumulation and critical...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Nan, Bécares, Laia, Chandola, Tarani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4582724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26407623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2296-y