Moving beyond 'rates, roads and rubbish': How do local governments make choices about healthy public policy to prevent obesity?

Australia and New Zealand Health Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Allender, Steven ^a   Gleeson, Erin ^b   Crammond, Brad ^c   Sacks, Gary ^b   Lawrence, Mark ^b   Peeters, Anna ^c   Loff, Bebe ^c   Swinburn, Boyd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LAW; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 70049101147     PISSN: 17438462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8462-6-20     Document Type: Article

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