Getting from analysis to action: Framing obesity research, policy and practice with a solution-oriented complex systems lens

Healthcare Papers

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-41

  Finegood, Diane T ^a   Karanfil, Özge ^a   Matteson, Carrie L ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGE; COMMUNITY; FAMILY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOME; INFORMATION CENTER; NOTE; OBESITY; PANDEMIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCHOOL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 58149394535     PISSN: 1488917X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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