Public Health
Volume 121, Issue 8 , Pages 572-575 , August 2007

Commentary

  • Yuval Neria

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 69, New York, NY 10032, USA. Tel.: +12125436061; fax: +12125436515.
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  • Richard Neugebauer

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