Social health and environmental quality of life: Their relationship to positive physical health and subjective well-being in a population of Urban African Americans

Western Journal of Black Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 358-366

  Tovar Murray, Darrick ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79953136925     PISSN: 01974327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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