How does the rural food environment affect rural childhood obesity?

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 450-461

  Hartley, David ^a   Anderson, Nathaniel ^a   Fox, Kimberley ^a   Lenardson, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

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EID: 83455186283     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2011.0086     Document Type: Article

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