Supermarket and grocery store-based interventions to promote healthful food choices and eating practices: A systematic review

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Escaron, Anne L ^c   Meinen, Amy M ^a   Nitzke, Susan A ^b   Martinez Donate, Ana P ^b  

^a WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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EID: 84877681049     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd10.120156     Document Type: Article

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