Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 131-133 , May 2005

Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health

  • Ruth E.K. Stein, MD

      Affiliations

    • From the Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY

REFERENCES 

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PII: S1530-1567(05)60190-6

doi: 10.1367/1539-4409(2005)5[131:CHTNWA]2.0.CO;2

Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 131-133 , May 2005