“Why would you want to stand?” an account of the lived experience of employees taking part in a workplace sit-stand desk intervention
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-8038-9