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Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Employment, and Social Support

Dwenda Gjerdingen, Patricia McGovern, Laura Attanasio, Pamela Jo Johnson and Katy Backes Kozhimannil
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2014, 27 (1) 87-96; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2014.01.130126
Dwenda Gjerdingen
From the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis (DG); Medica Research Institute (PJJ) and Divisions of Environmental Health Sciences (PM), Health Policy and Management (LA, KBK), and Epidemiology and Community Health (PJJ), University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis.
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Patricia McGovern
From the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis (DG); Medica Research Institute (PJJ) and Divisions of Environmental Health Sciences (PM), Health Policy and Management (LA, KBK), and Epidemiology and Community Health (PJJ), University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis.
PhD, MPH
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Laura Attanasio
From the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis (DG); Medica Research Institute (PJJ) and Divisions of Environmental Health Sciences (PM), Health Policy and Management (LA, KBK), and Epidemiology and Community Health (PJJ), University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis.
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Pamela Jo Johnson
From the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis (DG); Medica Research Institute (PJJ) and Divisions of Environmental Health Sciences (PM), Health Policy and Management (LA, KBK), and Epidemiology and Community Health (PJJ), University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis.
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Katy Backes Kozhimannil
From the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis (DG); Medica Research Institute (PJJ) and Divisions of Environmental Health Sciences (PM), Health Policy and Management (LA, KBK), and Epidemiology and Community Health (PJJ), University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis.
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