Elvers, Horst-Dietrich; Borte, Michael; Herbarth, Olf - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2006
This paper assesses the impact of social factors on the development of allergic diseases in early childhood. Epidemiological research has shown increasing allergy rates with improvements in social economic status (SES). However, we argue that the pattern of social influences on allergies is too...