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Prevention science and collaborative community action research: Combining the best from both perspectives

ROGER P. WEISSBERG MARK T. GREENBERG University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois & 2Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Pages 479-492 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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