Obesity (Public Health Mini-Guides):
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Obesity: From Public Health to Public Policy
Marlene Schwartz, PhD, is a senior research scientist in Psychology and the School of Public Health as well as Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. Dr. Schwartz received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale, where she studied under renowned obesity expert Kelly Brownell. Prior to her current academic appointments, she served as the Co-Director of the Yal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqu174