Meeting a binational research challenge: Substance abuse among transnational Mexican farmworkers in the United States

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 61-67

  Garcia, Victor ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; MEXICO; MIGRATION; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PENNSYLVANIA; RESEARCH; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38749108159     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2007.00125.x     Document Type: Article

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