Double Jeopardy: Vulnerable children and the possible global lead poisoning/infectious disease syndemic

Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 154-161

  Singer, Merrill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

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