Media coverage of Canada's obesity epidemic: Illustrating the subtleties of surveillance medicine

Critical Public Health

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-233

  Holmes, Bev J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Media; Obesity epidemic; Public health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMPATHY; EPIDEMIC; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MASS MEDIUM; OBESITY; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 74949141718     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581590802478048     Document Type: Article

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