Images of Appalachia

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Lengerich, Eugene J ^a   Bohland, James R ^b   Brown, Pamela K ^c   Dignan, Mark B ^d   Paskett, Electra D ^e   Schoenberg, Nancy E ^d   Wyatt, Stephen W ^f  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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EID: 84978388498     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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