Obesity and poverty: Are food stamps to blame?

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-49

  Kupillas, Lauren M ^a   Nies, Mary A ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of food; Food Stamp Program; Nutrition; Obesity; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548938567     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822307304952     Document Type: Article

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