The Building Blocks Collaborative: Advancing a Life Course Approach to Health Equity Through Multi-Sector Collaboration.
Too many children are born into poverty, often living in disinvested communities without adequate opportunities to be healthy and thrive. Two complementary frameworks-health equity and life course-propose new approaches to these challenges. Health equity strategies seek to improve community conditio...
| Publicado en: | Maternal & Child Health Journal Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 373 - 380 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2014
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