Child psychiatric epidemiology: What we have learned and what we need to learn

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 79-92

  Canino, Glorisa ^a   Bird, Hector R ^b   Rubio Stipec, Maritza ^c   Bravo, Milagros ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

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