Healthy Foods, Healthy Families: combining incentives and exposure interventions at urban farmers’ markets to improve nutrition among recipients of US federal food assistance

April B. Bowling ¹ * , Mikayla Moretti ², Kayla Ringelheim ², Alvin Tran ¹, Kirsten Davison ¹

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