Public health interventions for body dissatisfaction and eating disorders: Learning from Victoria

Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders: Collaborative Research, Advocacy, and Policy Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 71-84

  Paxton, Susan J ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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