Obesity prevention strategies: could food or soda taxes improve health?
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EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE Could targeted food taxes improve health?
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1478-2715,2042-8189
DOI: 10.4997/jrcpe.2016.109