Community-based interventions for obesity prevention: Lessons learned by Australian policy-makers

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Haby, Michelle M ^a,b   Doherty, Rebecca ^a   Welch, Nicky ^a,c   Mason, Vicky ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84855496210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-20     Document Type: Article

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