Cohort Profile: Mandela's Children: the 1990 Birth to Twenty Study in South Africa

Overview

Journal Int J Epidemiol

Specialty Public Health

Date 2007 Mar 16

PMID 17355979

Citations 155

Authors

Linda Richter

Shane Norris

John Pettifor

Derek Yach

Noel Cameron

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