Income inequality and the double burden of under- and overnutrition in India.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on September 01, 2007

Authors

S V Subramanian1, Ichiro Kawachi, George Davey Smith

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115-6096, USA. svsubram@hsph.harvard.edu

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