Public health's inconvenient truth: The need to create partnerships with the business sector

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Majestic, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC SECTOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66449100888     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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