Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 189-196 , February 2010

Area Deprivation Affects Behavioral Problems of Young Adolescents in Mixed Urban and Rural Areas: The TRAILS Study

  • Sijmen A. Reijneveld, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Sijmen A. Reijneveld, M.D., Ph.D., University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Department of Health Sciences, PO Box 196, 9700 AD Groningen, the Netherlands.
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  • Rene Veenstra, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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  • Andrea F. de Winter, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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  • Frank C. Verhulst, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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  • Johannes Ormel, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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  • Gea de Meer, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
    • Municipal Health Service Fryslân, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

Received 22 March 2009 ,Accepted 16 June 2009.

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PII: S1054-139X(09)00253-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.06.004

Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 189-196 , February 2010

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