Environmental health needs an expanded paradigm, II. Contextualizing environmental health with environmental studies
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1933-8244,2154-4700
DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2018.1514806