Black/white differences in nutritional risk among rural older adults: The home-delivered meals program

Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 13-27

  Sharkey, Joseph R ^a   Haines, Pamela S ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based service; Home delivered nutrition; Nutritional risk; Race disparity; Rural

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002350631     PISSN: 01639366     EISSN: 15408566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J052v20n03_02     Document Type: Article

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