Lost information? The fate of papers presented at the 40th Society for Social Medicine Conference

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 442-443

  Petticrew, Mark ^a   Gilbody, Simon ^a   Song, Fujian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0033019583     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.53.7.442     Document Type: Article

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