Understanding health disparities among female street youth

Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 321-337

  Benoit, Cecilia ^a   Jansson, Mikael ^a   Anderson, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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