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This article was written by Mary Kathryn Poole, MPH, public health consultant, Adrienne R. Mundorf, MPH, program manager, Naomi K. Englar, communications and dissemination coordinator, and Donald Rose, PhD, MPH, RD, professor, head of nutrition section, all with the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
FUNDING/SUPPORT This work was supported by a grant from the United Health Foundation. This work was also supported in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Tulane Prevention Research Center (PRC) Cooperative Agreement #U48DP001948. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the CDC or United Health Foundation.
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