Cohort study reveals greater medical surveillance for first-born children and links family size to social status, indicating birth order influences pediatric healthcare patterns.
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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