Child Development Research in North American Native Communities-Looking Back and Moving Forward: Introduction

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-48

  Sarche, Michelle Christensen ^a   Whitesell, Nancy Rumbaugh ^a  

^a Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian; Child development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856957196     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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