Obesity: Upsetting the public health balance

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-123

  Binns, Colin ^a   Low, Wah Yun ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; OBESITY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ASIA; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; OBESITY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84874829346     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539513479003     Document Type: Editorial

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