A New Health Care Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agricultural Policy
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A New Health Care Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agricultural Policy
Health care leaders are broadening their awareness to include the need to address the food system as a means to individual, public, and global health, above and beyond basic nutritional factors. Key voices from the health care sector have begun to engage in market transformation and are aggregating to articulate the urgency for engagement in food and agricultural policy. Systemic transformation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1932-0248,1932-0256
DOI: 10.1080/19320240903329055