Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 437-438 , May 2010

Access to Food: Getting to Some of the Root Mediators of Psychiatric Illness

  • Tamara Dubowitz, M.Sc., S.M., Sc.D.

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Tamara Dubowitz, M.Sc., S.M., Sc.D., RAND Corporation, 4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

,Accepted 23 February 2010.

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 Disclosure: Dr. Dubowitz reports no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(10)00211-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2010.02.009

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 437-438 , May 2010

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