New year's resolution: Let's get rid of excessive food prices in remote Australia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-8

  Webb, Karen L ^a   Leeder, Stephen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMMUNITY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EDITORIAL; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH FOOD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MONITORING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POVERTY;

EID: 33846277587     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00776.x     Document Type: Editorial

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