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Formative Research for a Healthy Diet Intervention Among Inner-City Adolescents: The Importance of Family, School and Neighborhood Environment

Jennifer L. Dodson James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Ya-Chun Hsiao Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taitung Branch, Taitung, Taiwan
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Madhuri Kasat-Shors Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Laura Murray Sociomedical Sciences Department, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA
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Nga Kim Nguyen Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Adam K. Richards Department of General Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Joel Gittelsohn Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Pages 39-58 | Published online: 08 Jan 2009

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