Moving beyond 'rates, roads and rubbish': How do local governments make choices about healthy public policy to prevent obesity?
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Moving beyond 'rates, roads and rubbish': How do local governments make choices about healthy public policy to prevent obesity?
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عنوان ژورنال: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1743-8462
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8462-6-20