Introduction to the special issue: Childhood obesity

Psychology in the Schools

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 693-694

  Theodore, Lea A ^a   Bray, Melissa A ^b   Kehle, Thomas J ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 76749160732     PISSN: 00333085     EISSN: 15206807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pits.20408     Document Type: Editorial

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